501.BB/9–3047: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
us urgent
434. For US Delegation to General Assembly. Department has noted impasse in balloting between Ukraine and India for Security Council and considers it of great importance that USDel continue to support India. We should not shift our vote contrary to conviction and judgment merely to precipitate decision or to line up with winner. Eastern European bloc failed to provide acceptable candidate partly because one of its Members is now participating in aggressive acts in defiance of UN, partly because two other Eastern European Members are in fact component parts of USSR and share that country’s failure during [Page 149] past year to meet satisfactorily its obligations as member of SC, and partly because the only candidate we could accept declined to assume SC responsibilities.
Under these circumstances, only acceptable course of action left open to us is to support suitable candidate from outside of Soviet bloc.