ODA files, lot 62 D 225, “US Representative in Trusteeship Council”
Memorandum of Conversation, by an Adviser of the United States Delegation to the Trusteeship Council (McKay)
- Subject:
- French Objection to Publicity given US Delegation Statements in TC.
Mr. Huré approached me today to say that Paris had asked the French Delegation to raise an objection to the fact that Mr. Sears’ statements on the French Cameroons and French Togoland in the [Page 1368] Trusteeship Council were being publicized in West Africa by the United States Information Officers in Lagos and Accra. Mr. Huré said that the French Delegation did not object strongly to the substance of Mr. Sears’ statements but to the fact that the exploitation of such statements by hostile elements in West Africa would weaken the position of France and the United States there.
Mr. Huré said that he thought the French Ambassador in Washington would have protested against the action of the United States Information Officers when he called on the Department recently if he had known about it at the time of his call.
Mr. Huré asked if the US Information Officers could not also broadcast and otherwise publicize the statements made by Mr. Pignon in his concluding observations on the French Cameroons and French Togo-land, in order to present a more “balanced” picture of French policy in the area. I replied that I would inform Mr. Sears and the Department of Mr. Huré’s comments.