Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, and Mr. Joseph S. Sparks

DEPARTMENT OF STATE ARCHIVES INATIONAL AND of 604 SIS RECORDS 97 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: March 29, 1949 SUBJECT: Courtesy Call on the Secretary by Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar PARTICIPANTS: Sir Ranaswami Mudaliar Mr. Dean Acheson - Secretary of State Mr. Joseph S. Sparks - SOA COPIES TO: E FE EUR UNA 8/3 NEA SOA 1-1493 After recalling our meeting in 1946, Bir Ramaswami Mudeliar spoke in general of his concept of the functions of a Chairman of a United Nations group. He said that in order to be successful a good Chairman should forget that he is a national of any country and should handle the problems before the group objectively and with a moral clarity and force divorced from the point of view of the country from which he comes. I agreed with him and men- tioned my own experience as Chairman of the first session of the UNRRA Council in Atlantic City in 1943 during which I Vacated the cheir on the only occasion on which I spoke as American representative. On the subject of Indonesia, Sir Ramasvami said that India's interest arose not only out of sympathy for the nationalistic aspirations of the Indonesione but also out of deep concern over the growth of Communism in the Far East. He said that he understood the domestic political problems confronting the Dutch in compromising on the Indonesian question but hoped that an urgent solution could be found. I said that I felt genuine progrese had been made during the last ten days on the Indonesian case and that I shered his evaluation of the importance of timing. DECLASSIFIED Es O, 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E) In Dept. of State letter, A3-23-33 SONNT DENT 1 AL NLT. He s NARS Date 4-21-76