320/10–153: Telegram
The United States Representative at the united Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State
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Delga 53. For the Secretary. Request urgent instructions re how United States should vote to fill Thailand seat in the TC and the seat in ECOSOC which becomes vacant if Turkey should relinquish it. The present candidates for the TC seat are India and possibly Indonesia and would be Afghanistan and Indonesia for the Turkish seat in ECOSOC. India and Indonesia are certainly against us on the issue of seating Chinese Communists and we must assume that Afghanistan is too, and at the very most would abstain if the issue should come up. Elections to these councils are expected on Monday, October 5.