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UNP files, lot 59 D 237, “Membership”

Memorandum of Conversation, by an Adviser of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly (Bonsal)

confidential
[New York,] September 29, 1954.
  • Subject:
  • Non-Member Participation

Ambassador Sawada told me that he had an opportunity of discussing with Prime Minister Yoshida, on the occasion of the latter’s brief passage through New York, our current proposal for non-member participation. “I sold him the idea in principle although there will have to be discussions in detail with the Foreign Office”, said Sawada.

(This conversation and other which I have had on this subject stress the importance, in my judgment, of our being able to furnish delegates and observers with whom we discuss this matter a piece of paper setting forth in summary form just what we have in mind and emphasizing the difference between this proposal and previous proposals. This piece of paper need not necessarily be in the form of a draft resolution. In fact, it would probably be most useful if it were merely a statement of the principal points of our proposal.)