501.BB Palestine/6–748: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Egypt
us urgent
733. At SC meeting on Palestine this afternoon Gromyko formally indicated willingness of his govt to participate in supplying military observers under Paragraph 7 of SC resolution May 29. Prior to Council meeting Soviet Representative made similar statement to press.
It is obvious that Gromyko cannot secure favorable SC action on his suggestion since a motion to broaden representation of govts supplying military observers would certainly not receive necessary seven affirmative votes.
You are authorized informally to impart foregoing view to Bernadotte and to add that our attitude as to proper composition of military [Page 1104] observer teams remains as set forth in our 712, June 3 and 357, June 3, to USUN, repeated Cairo as 706.
Repeated to USUN as 368, London as 2118, Paris as 1980, Brussels as 872, Moscow as 641.1
- The Department’s views were conveyed orally to Count Bernadotte on June 9. The Mediator commented that “he adhered to view that military observers should be supplied by members of Truce Commission only, namely, Belgium, France and US.” (Telegram 712, June 9, 5 p. m., from Cairo, 501.BB Palestine/6–948)↩