Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VI

740.00119 FEAC/5–2548

The Secretary of State to the New Zealand Minister (Berendsen)

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Honorable the Minister of New Zealand and has the honor to acknowledge his notes of May 19 and May 25, 1948¹ regarding the application of Burma for admission to the Far Eastern Commission.

The Minister of New Zealand is informed that the United States Member in the Far Eastern Commission has been authorized to bring the requests of both Pakistan and Burma to the attention of the Commission and if the procedure should prove agreeable to the member governments of the Commission, to request the members to obtain the views of their respective governments upon the substantive questions of the admission of Pakistan and Burma to the Far Eastern Commission, and thereupon to utilize the machinery of the Commission as a means of polling the member governments, the representatives on the Commission voting in such case as representatives of their governments rather than as members of the Commission.

Should this procedure prove unacceptable to the member governments of the Far Eastern Commission, the Department is prepared to give its full consideration to any proposed procedure which is generally acceptable to the other member governments of the Far Eastern Commission.²

Washington, June 21, 1948.

1. Neither printed.
2. On July 21 General McCoy was informed of the Department’s views in regard to having the various governments deposit with the FEC their approval of the admission of Burma and Pakistan. Soviet failure to respond to an earlier American proposal was cited. (740.00119 FEAC/7–2148)