310.2/9–1650: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
282. 1. Indo membership application when received shld in Dept’s view preferably be considered urgently by SC and GA separately from any other applications. Since Dept has indication Jebb1 may hold contrary view, request you endeavor persuade him that this course preferable. If SC approval Indo given, US will move in GA for immed plenary action admit Indo.2
2. Re old applications, GA resolutions 296 (IV) A through I and K request SC reconsideration but do not specify time.3 So long as present membership stalemate continues we see no need automatic repetition old positions annually and hence wld be quite willing, in absence request by GA or by some SC rep for action, to see SC defer indefinitely reconsideration old applications, treating GA resolutions as being standing request to act when affirmative action possible. In any case, we see no need such action until late in GA session unless pressure for it. Desire various quarters for deferral controversial items may reduce likelihood such demand in GA.
- H. M. Gladwyn Jebb, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations.↩
- Security Council approval was effected at a meeting on September 26, and Indonesia was admitted to the United Nations by favorable General Assembly action on September 28, to become the 60th Member State of the Organization.↩
- For documentation on this matter at the fourth regular session of the General Assembly in 1949, see Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. ii, pp. 291 ff.↩