320/10–953: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State
confidential
New York, October 9,
1953—8:34 p.m.
Delga 96. Subject: Japanese associate membership. Sawada advised Key that his government had decided not to apply for an associate membership and to hold this matter in abeyance for the remainder of the current session inasmuch as discussion of the membership question in the ad hoc committee was nearing its end. His government would, however, re-examine the question prior to the opening of the ninth session in the light of international conditions then existing.
Lodge