IO Files: US/A/554

Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. G. Hayden Raynor of the United States Delegation Staff of Advisers

confidential

[Here follows discussion of matters unrelated to the slates question.]

Security Council Electiom

Mr. Papanek asked me what our views were about finding a solution to this problem. I told him that so far the problem was one which baffled us completely. He protested, perhaps a little too earnestly I thought, that the Czechs did not understand the situation. He said they had indicated the day before that they were willing to take the assignment and then had apparently been thrown overboard for reasons which they did not know or understand.