UNP files, lot 59 D 237, “Membership”
Memorandum of Conversation, by an Adviser of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly (Allen)
- Subject:
- Associate Membership
Dr. Haymerle advised me that he has now received his Government’s views on this matter and they are negative. The Austrian Government feels it would be undesirable to promote the idea of associate membership, since it would be likely to arouse such controversy and so increase the political tension surrounding the issue as to hinder rather than help the eventual attainment of the principal objective of full membership.
According to Haymerle, his Government was not even attracted to his more modest approach (previously reported) of gradually increasing the number of specific items as to which the pending applicants would be invited by the Committees to state their views, fearing that, tho to a lesser extent, this would have the same impeding effect on the attainment of full membership. Haymerle was therefore happy to note that we had not mentioned it in our speech.
I stated that we still had the matter under consideration, however, and if any of the other applicants, including Japan, desired it, we might want to pursue it further. He urged that before we took any steps in that direction we consult further with him.