320/10–3150: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Spain
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Washington, October 31, 1950—6 p. m.
236. Ad Hoc Polit Comite approved this afternoon resol on Spain by vote Yes–37, No–10, Abstention–12, one absent.1
Acheson
- Documentation on the policy of the United States regarding the Spanish question at the United Nations and within the framework of bilateral relations between the United States and Spain is scheduled for publication in volume iii. The matter as a United Nations issue had been inscribed on the agenda of the General Assembly as item No. 62, “Relations of States Members [of the United Nations] and specialized agencies with Spain,” upon the initiation of two separate resolutions by the Dominican Republic and Peru which called for normalization of relations with Spain. The General Assembly had assigned the matter to its Ad Hoc Political Committee, which after consideration of the item in five meetings from October 25–31 accepted a joint resolution cosponsored by eight states revoking recommendations in the General Assembly resolution of December 12, 1946, for the withdrawal of Ambassadors and Ministers from Madrid and intended to debar Spain from international agencies associated with the United Nations. The United States favored such modifications of the 1946 resolution and spoke in favor of the joint draft resolution on October 31. For relevant public documentation on this matter, see fascicule 62 in United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Annexes, vol. ii. For the United States statement in the Ad Hoc Political Committee on October 31, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Ad Hoc Political Committee, pp. 184 and 185. The General Assembly adopted the resolution on November 4; for the plenary proceedings, see United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Plenary Meetings, vol. i, pp. 371 ff. (hereafter cited as GA (V), Plenary).↩