Hickerson–Key–Murphy files, lot 58 D 33, “Personnel question”
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Special Assistant on United Nations Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs (Allen)1
- Subject:
- Personnel Resolution
- Participants: Representatives of European Delegations (listed below)
- W. P. Allen
The following delegations are prepared to co-sponsor the present US draft resolution on personnel2 provided a respectable number of Western European, Latin American and Commonwealth Delegations do so: Belgium (Van Langenhove), Netherlands (Von Balluseck), Sweden (Lundgron), Norway (Engan), Luxembourg (Kremer). According to Ambassador Jooste the South African Delegation will not co-sponsor the resolution no matter what other Delegations join since they feel very strongly that the provisions regarding a report and recommendations to the next GA are very undesirable. Ambassador Munro (N.Z.) and Mr. Forsyth (Australia) expressed serious misgivings concerning the same paragraphs but promised to advise us as soon as possible in the morning whether, despite these, they would be prepared to join in co-sponsoring.
- Although source text does not indicate the city of origin, the letterhead reads: “United States Delegation to the General Assembly.” A notation on the source text under the dateline reads: “(Typed March 28, 1953).”↩
- On Mar. 28, Representative Henry Cabot Lodge delivered a lengthy statement to the General Assembly entitled “Maintaining Charter Standards for International Civil Servants” in which a draft resolution on the subject was formally presented to the General Assembly by Lodge on behalf of his Government and those of the United Kingdom and France. The Resolution was subsequently adopted by the General Assembly on Apr. 1 by a vote of 41 to 13 with 4 abstentions. The text of the Lodge statement and the Resolution on Personnel Policy approved by the General Assembly on Apr. 1 is printed in the Department of State Bulletin, Apr. 27, 1953, pp. 620–623. See also the letter from Lodge to Lourie, Apr. 7, infra.↩