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Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. J. Jefferson Jones, III, Adviser, United States Delegation to the Trusteeship Council
US/T/139
Subject: Trusteeship Council Action on Ewe Problem
| Participants: | Mr. Rodolfo Munoz, Argentine Delegation |
| Mr. Quesada Zapiola, Argentine Delegation | |
| Ambassador Francis B. Sayre, United States Delegation | |
| Mr. J. Jefferson Jones, III, United States Delegation |
Ambassador Sayre said that he had requested the meeting with Mr. Munoz in order that they might have an exchange of views on [Page 600] what action the Trusteeship Council might most wisely take with respect to the Ewe question. Ambassador Sayre said that United States thinking on the Anglo-French memorandum was that certain parts of it could be approved by the Trusteeship Council, particularly the portion setting forth the plans of the administering authorities to establish some sort of joint body of representatives of the two Togolands and also the suggestion that the Consultative Commission had no further role to play in the future. The United States believed, however, that the joint body mentioned in the memorandum which we understand is to be called a Joint Council, should be strengthened, and that the Trusteeship Council should urge that its advisory powers should be increased so as to include matters relating to political and also educational development. Ambassador Sayre stated that he did not know whether or not the British and French intend to submit a resolution to the Council on the Ewe question, but that if they did, we hoped that Argentina would join us in submitting an amendment broadening the powers of the Joint Council along the foregoing lines. We also hoped that if the French and British did not introduce a resolution, Argentina would join us in submitting a proposal to the Council along the same lines.
Dr. Munoz replied that his Delegation might wish for the record to vote for more extreme proposals which Mr. Khalidy might submit even though it realized that such proposals had little chance of passage. Mr. Sayre replied that he had talked to Mr. Khalidy about the Anglo-French memorandum and that Mr. Sayre judged from what the latter had indicated that he did not expect to present an Iraqi proposal to the Council. Mr. Khalidy had said that while he did not feel that he could co-sponsor a resolution with the United States along the lines which Ambassador Sayre had already described, he would not oppose such a resolution but would abstain if such a resolution was put to the vote. Mr. Sayre said that he considered his proposal as a liberalization of the conservative Anglo-French position and he hoped the Argentines would come along with us in this effort. After further conversation Dr. Munoz stated that upon further consideration he thought that the Argentine Delegation might be able to associate itself with the United States in introducing the United States proposals. He promised to take the question up with the Argentine Government and to let us know definitely within two days if possible. In answer to Mr. Sayre’s question, he added that in his message to the Argentine Government he would recommend to his Government that they join with the United States in sponsoring the Resolution.