83. Editorial Note
Following the close of the Resumed Eleventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 14, during which the “Report of the Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary” was considered, Secretary Dulles traveled to New York for a series [Page 232] of conversations with various foreign leaders on issues and topics of immediate concern to the Twelfth Session scheduled to open on September 18. The Secretary held a total of 31 conversations between September 16 and 22, including a lengthy discussion with Secretary-General Hammarskjöld on September 20, during which the Secretary said that he “saw no serious difficulty arising in connection with the re-election of the Secretary General. Mr. Hammarskjöld replied that the Soviet Union was causing some trouble; they were making themselves ‘interesting’ but he did not think their obstruction would be serious.” (Department of State, Central Files, 110.11–DU/9–1857)
Although an undated master list of memoranda of conversations held by Dulles at New York contains 31 entries, the most complete file of these memoranda found in Department of State files contains only the first 29. (Ibid.) Ibid., Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199, contains only the undated master list, but none of the actual memoranda. The memoranda are listed in a series designated TGA/MC/—.