310.2/8–2952: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Mission at the United Nations1
101. Re Membership.
(1) Dept suggests that US statement on Sov membership res be along fol lines:
[Page 857]US cannot accept res of Sov Rep for simultaneous admission 14 candidates because we continue prefer separate consideration each applicant and continue have objections to admission certain candidates listed in res. We believe SC shld examine each applicant on own merits. In our view we shld not pool together group of applicants some of which may have sound and others unsound claims for membership.
USSR, in its res presently before us, links together 14 candidates. It asks us to refrain from judging applicants on merits each case; to endorse all fourteen candidates by single vote whether or not we have objections to the admission of any of them, and, incidentally, to ignore fact there are other applicants besides these 14. We firmly believe that nine of candidates listed—Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Nepal, and Portugal, are fully qualified and shld be admitted. However, we continue to have objections to admission of the remaining five—Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, and Rumania. These objections are based upon our opinion that these candidates do not fulfill conditions required by Art 4.
US and overwhelming majority UN Membs have long hoped for admission Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Nepal and Portugal. We deplore Sov policy of refusing to admit these states because of refusal of majority to admit others. It is common knowledge that it is this arbitrary policy of Sov Union which has caused continued exclusion Italy and others. For example, the Italian application has been voted upon by this body on five different occasions, and five times her admission has been blocked by the Soviet Union. For our part, we continue to support strongly the applications of these nine states, which shld be permitted immediately to take their rightful place among us as full Membs of UN.
2. If there is separate consideration of Agenda Item B, which we assume relates to GA Res 506 (VI), we believe that it wld be appropriate under this item for SC to take separate vote on each of the applications included in Sov res and also ROK. You shld, if procedurally feasible, propose this course of action, voting for the non-Sov applicants and against Sov applicants unless you believe our negative votes wld constitute vetoes, in which case you shld consult Dept.
- Drafted by Jones, UNP, cleared with the geographic bureaus and L/UNA, and approved for transmission by Acting Assistant Secretary Sandifer, signed by Popper, UNP Deputy Director, for Sandifer.↩