501.BC Atomic/10–1847: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
492. Second Report AEC will be received by SC as interim report requiring no additional SC instructions to enable AEC to continue work.1 USGovt feels that divergencies between AEC majority and Soviet are more significant than could have been adequately presented in such an interim report. Therefore, it is important, when Report before SC, for USrep to: (a) review efforts US and majority to fulfill assigned tasks of AEC, (b) summarize and sharply define the basic disagreements between the majority and minority views calling particular attention to inadequacy Soviet proposals of June 11, (c) refer to record Soviet nonparticipation and evasiveness, (d) call attention grave difficulties and limitations imposed on future work of developing proposals because of Soviet and Polish non-acceptance basic principles and possibility of eventual breakdown in negotiations if the minority persists in refusing to join the majority (refer Secretary Marshall’s speech Sept 17 before GA2) and (e) refer to Soviet’s exaggerated and reactionary interpretation of national sovereignty rights which, if carried to its logical conclusion might make impossible any agreement on a give and take basis.
US at same time should reaffirm intention to continue effort to clarify and resolve, where possible, existing points of disagreement.