Office of the Historian

48. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Vietnam1

Washington, December 3, 1958—7:27 p.m.

798. In view fact Guinea has filed application for admission UN2 and SC expected consider application December 8 or 9, Wilcox called in Vietnamese and Korean Ambassadors to inquire whether they desired their governments’ applications be considered by SC at same time but separately and after Guinea. Korean Ambassador replied affirmatively. Vietnamese Ambassador after re-studying instructions on hand from his government also replied affirmatively.3 US will therefore sponsor and actively support both applications.4

Herter
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 310.2/12–358. Confidential. Drafted by Mendenhall; cleared by Lane, Bacon, Hartley, and SEA; and approved by Wilcox who signed for Herter. Repeated by pouch to CINCPAC POLAD, and USUN.↩
  2. Guinea presented its formal application for admission to the United Nations to the U.N. Secretary-General on December 2. (Delga 593 from USUN, December 2; ibid., 330/12–258) For text, see U.N. doc. A4048.↩
  3. Memoranda of Wilcox’s December 3 conversation with Korean Ambassador Yang and Vietnamese Ambassador Chuong and of a subsequent telephone conversation with Chuong are in Department of State, Central Files, 310.2/12–358.↩
  4. Telegram 516, December 4, instructed the Mission to request that the Security Council consider Korea’s and Vietnam’s applications for U.N. membership and ensure that these applications were considered separately and after Guinea’s. The telegram also transmitted the text of draft Security Council resolutions on Korean and Vietnamese membership. (ibid., 320.11/12–458)↩