501.BC–Greece/9–847: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
410. The position established in Department’s 394, September 10, 3 p.m.1 was designed to meet a possible emergency parliamentary situation should SC suddenly have to vote accepting or rejecting the recommendations of the sub-committee on the Governorship of Trieste.
We now feel that USUN in consort with UK, Chinese and French Delegations will find it possible informally to manifest sufficient dissatisfaction with the recommendations of the sub-committee as to make our views decisively known without involving the risk of finding ourselves in the position of having to veto the entire report of the sub-committee.
You should accordingly indicate no willingness to consider the names of Buisseret, Broch or Fernandez but should stoutly maintain that the United States will not rest until a really outstanding candidate has been found for the Governorship of Trieste. The essence of the compromise reached in the CFM when it established the Permanent and Provisional Statutes for Trieste was that the entire scheme for the Free Territory would be unworkable without an able, impartial and courageous Governor.
Furthermore we feel that in this case time plays on our side. We believe that if the Allied Military Command in Trieste is sedulous in resisting every Yugoslav attempt at encroachment, the Yugoslavs and their Soviet masters will realize that no advantage is to be gained by prolonging a stalemate in finding a suitable and impartial Governor.
We are gratified the Chinese have stated their willingness to advance the name of M. Stucki.2 Please bear in mind in your discussions that the Security Council has accepted the responsibility of consultation with both the Italian and Yugoslav Governments before its nominee is appointed. For your info Italian Embassy here has informally indicated that Foreign Office Rome is delighted with Stucki.
Repeated to Trieste as 45; and to Am Embassy Rome as 1764.