484. Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation Between the Under Secretary of State (Hoover) in Washington and the Deputy Representative at the United Nations Security Council (Barco) in New York, November 3, 1956, 10:45 p.m.1
Mr. Hoover said that he thought we ought to press for the Canadian Resolution including, if it seemed right, a vote tonight. He indicated that we would seek to get support down here and subsequently reported, after Rountree had made a call to Ambassador Brosio,2 that Brosio would get the Italians behind the effort right away.
In answer to an inquiry from Barco whether we should play a leading role in support of the Canadian Resolution, Mr. Hoover said yes.
Mr. Barco indicated that our two resolutions might have to be put a little aside if we were to get maximum effort on the Canadian Resolution. This seemed quite all right.
Mr. Barco discussed the Indian Resolution and particularly the passage calling for a report by SYG within 12 hours on the compliance with the GA cease fire. Although this tended to become confused with the Canadian Resolution, Lodge, according to Barco, thought they might be brought together, especially if the 12-hour compliance clause could be removed from the Indian Resolution and we might get the support of the backers of the Indian Resolution [Page 960] behind the Canadian. Mr. Hoover, after consultation with Mr. Rountree, agreed that if the two could be made inconsistent [consistent] and therefore complimentary [complementary?] this might be very useful.
Mr. Barco indicated that the SYG was all for the Canadian Resolution and will be pushing it.