Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II

310.311/1–1250

The Under Secretary of State (Webb) to the Director, Bureau of the Budget (Pace)

Washington, January 12, 1950.

My Dear Mr. Pace: There is enclosed for your consideration a draft of a proposed Executive Order¹ to supersede Executive Order Number 9844 of April 28, 1947, providing for the designation of the United States Mission to the United Nations and providing for its direction and administration.²

Executive Order Number 9844 designated the United States Mission to the United Nations. Section 2 of the Order designated the Representative of the United States to the United Nations as Chief of Mission in charge of the United States Mission to the United Nations. The Order further established the duties and responsibilities of the Chief of Mission.

Public Law 341, 81st Congress, amended the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and revisions are required in Executive Order 9844 in accordance with the changes in the basic law.³

Public Law 341 provides for a Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations. Such Deputy Representative is added to the United States Mission to the United Nations in the proposed Executive Order.⁴

The proposed Executive Order also designates the Deputy Representative to the United Nations as Deputy Chief of Mission and authorizes him to act as Chief of Mission in the absence of the United States Representative to the United Nations.

If the draft of the Executive Order meets with your approval it is requested that it be referred to the Attorney General for his consideration and, if he approves, transmitted to the Director of the Division of the Federal Register, the National Archives, for proper action.

There is also enclosed a letter to the President⁵ transmitting the draft order to him for his consideration and, if he approves, for his signature.

Sincerely yours,

James E. Webb

1. Not printed.
2. For previous documentation regarding the organization of United States representation at the United Nations, see Foreign Relations, volume i, for the years 1946–1948 and volume ii for 1940.
3. For appropriate statutory citations, see text of Executive Order, infra.
4. The 1949 statute also made provision for a second Deputy United States Representative in the Security Council.
5. Not printed.