330.13/4–2354: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State
658. For the Acting Secretary.1 Re: Disarmament. In disarmament subcommittee meeting this morning which lasted from 11 to 3 o’clock without a break, Vyshinsky reserved his right to raise [Page 1398] again at future meetings of the subcommitee question of including Communist China, Czechoslovakia and India.2
Vyshinsky also reserved his position on question of subcommittee meeting in capitals other than London.
On both of these points I made it clear, both in this morning’s meeting and to press afterwards, that I did not agree with Vyshinsky’s ideas.
My estimate of the Russian play is that they may well try to get subcommittee to meet in Moscow. They would then make a move to have Chinese Communists invited to come to subcommittee and express their views on hydrogen bomb, etc.
These developments would be very disadvantageous to us and I know you would agree that the people who represent us in London should be very alert to prevent this happening.
- Dulles was at Paris addressing the North Atlantic Council on the new conventional role which the United States planned to assign to nuclear weapons in strategic planning. For the text of Dulles’ statement at the closed Ministerial session, Apr. 23, see vol. v, Part 1, p. 509.↩
- Vyshinsky subsequently incorporated his objections to the exclusion of the People’s Republic of China, Czechoslovakia, and India from subcommittee membership in a letter to UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, which Lodge transmitted to the Department in telegram 661, Apr. 23. (330.13)↩