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L/UNA files, “Headquarters Agreement—Section 6”

The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Hammarskjold)

New York, July 2, 1953.

My Dear Hammarskjold: This letter is in further reference to our conversation on June 23rd [24?] (and your letter dated June 23 [22?])1 relative to the statement which you propose to make to the Economic and Social Council, a copy of which you handed to me and which is attached herewith.2

Upon further reflection I find that, while I do not agree in full with the statements in your letter of transmittal, I really cannot add anything to what I said when you first showed me the paper—that the clarification which you have added accurately depicts many of the procedures which are open to the United States and that, by virtue of this fact, the addition of your language is in the interests of clarity and completeness and actually improves the statement. I am glad, therefore, to say that I see no objection to your making the statement as you are planning to do it.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
  1. See Lodge letter of June 24, with attachments, supra.↩
  2. Not attached to source text, but see subenclosure of correspondence cited in previous footnote.↩