840.811/8–1348: Telegram
The Ambassador in Yugoslavia (Cannon) to the Secretary of State
Deldu63. See twelfth Paragraph Deldu 57 August 12 for statement on permanent US participation on commission (re Dudel 411). Believe passage “and provisions made for adequate non-riparian representation” protects our position.
Passage inserted in presentation because trend of debate indicated Soviets, as final gesture to put us on spot, might agree to US participation to represent Germany and Austria and all non-riparians.
An additional consideration was assumption US may sometime need to say that under proper conditions and safeguards US membership on commission would not be absolute condition. Better occasion seemed amendment Soviet Article V rather than final speech or postmortem explanation.
We thereby demonstrated again as we did in preamble discussion and our revised amendments willingness to negotiate which is entirely unreciprocated from Soviet side.
- Not printed. In this telegram of August 12, 1948, 6 p. m., the Department had indicated that it was disturbed by press reports that the United States delegation had offered to waive participation in a Danube Commission if Austria and Germany obtained membership on it, and requested information about this. (840.811/8–1248)↩