320.14/3–2752
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs (Jones)
- Subject:
- Action of Fourth Committee of Sixth Assembly
- Participants:
- Ambassador Silvercruys, Belgian Embassy
- Mr. Hickerson, UNA
- Mr. Allen, EUR
- Mr. Jones, UND
Mr. Hickerson commented on the various points with respect to the action of the Fourth Committee of the Sixth Assembly which Ambassador Silvercruys had raised at the previous meeting along the lines of the attached summary.1
Ambassador Silvercruys expressed appreciation for the painstaking care which Mr. Hickerson had taken in commenting on each of the questions which he had raised. He said that the Department’s careful study of the questions and its willingness to take the Belgian views into consideration were indicative of their importance. He said that the Government of Belgium would be very glad to give consideration to the views which Mr. Hickerson had expressed and that he considered that the two governments were not far apart in so far as their general objectives in the colonial field were concerned. Belgium would continue to discharge its responsibilities in the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi in the same way that it had assumed these responsibilities. The Belgian objectives in these territories were to make it possible for the two races to live in peace and to promote the advancement of the two territories as rapidly as possible.
[Here follows brief remarks about two other matters.]
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