UNP Files, Lot 59 D 237, “Slates for UN Organs Beg. 1951 (1951–1953)”
Memorandum of Conversations, by Ambassador Philip C. Jessup of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly
Subject: Security Council Election
| Participants: | Sir Gladwyn Jebb (UK) |
| Mr. Osten Unden1 (Sweden) (Separately) | |
| Ambassador Philip C. Jessup (US) |
Sir Gladwyn Jebb told me last night that “everybody” was going to vote for Greece on the next ballot. He specifically mentioned Norway and Denmark. I told him that Sunde had seemed a little uncertain because he did not know definitely what the UK would do. Jebb said that the Norwegians now had been fully informed about the British attitude and that they were all right.
I spoke to Unden and asked if it was going to be possible for Sweden to abstain. Unden, who is leaving for home today, said that they had not yet definitely decided. He thought there should be a change in the rules so that the election would be decided by a simple plurality. He agreed that the continuation of the balloting was very unsatisfactory and that the matter ought to be wound up.
- Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Delegation of Sweden to the General Assembly.↩