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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Johnson)1
- Subject:
- Japanese Observer Delegation at the UN
- Participants:
- Mr. Johnson, Acting Assistant Secretary, FE
- Mr. Ryuji Takeuchi, Minister, Embassy of Japan
- Mr. Franklin Hawley, Officer in Charge, Japanese Affairs, NA
Mr. Takeuchi called on me at 4 p.m., October 13 and, following a brief discussion on another subject, said that he was leaving for New York that same evening in his new capacity as Japan’s permanent representative to the United Nations. He said that by “permanent representative” he did not mean that he would be permanently stationed in New York but that he would be going there from time to time, on a commuting basis from Washington, as the situation required. He wished primarily to know whom among the US Delegation he should contact.2 I said that the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs [Page 865] would be represented by Ambassadors David Key and John Muccio, as well as by Mr. Arthur Emmons, who had charge of the Korean Desk in the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, and that they could be reached at our UN offices at No. 2 Park Avenue. With reference to conjecture by Mr. Takeuchi as to when the “Korea fight” would start, I observed that in addition to the controversy on the Korean situation, Mr. Takeuchi would also probably find most interesting the Assembly discussions on Tunisia, Morocco and South Africa. I said that I would write to Mr. Key to tell him that Mr. Takeuchi would be getting in touch with him in New York.