IO Files: US/A/C.1/1940
Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. G. Hayden Raynor of the United States Delegation Advisory Staff
Mr. Parrott informed me that there had been a fairly full discussion of this matter at the Commonwealth meeting this morning. Mr. Bevin and Mr. Younger both made the point strongly that our proposals in general should be supported.
India, as we know, is unenthusiastic. The balance of the Commonwealth reacted quite favorably, according to Parrott, although the South Africans pointed to one or two difficulties they might have. (Ambassador Jooste of South Africa, in a separate conversation, indicated, to me that the main difficulty he thought his government might have was on the proposal with respect to the creation of U.N. units in national forces. I told him that our paragraph on this was being revised.) Mr. Parrott said that representatives of the Commonwealth had been requested by Mr. Bevin to submit to him (Parrott) any amendments or suggestions that they might have.
Mr. Parrott asked if we would like for them to work out similar arrangements with the Brussels people1 and I told him that this would be very helpful.
It was agreed that Parrott will exchange with me full information as received and that we will keep in the closest touch on this matter.
- Refers apparently to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.↩