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    "ocrText": "examint\nCONDITIONAL\nSeptember 21, 1949.\n659\nMEMORANCUM OF CONVERSATION\nARCHIVES 'NATIONAL Ai\nRECORDS\nSERVICE*\nThe Australian Ambassador, Mr. Makin ealled at his request, at\nthe Waldorf Towers. He had preseed urgently for this appointment.\nHe told me that he was conveying to me a message \"from Canberra\",\nwhich Canberra wished to have delivered to me today. It was to the\neffect thet Canberra had been disturbed to know that discussions had\ntaken place in Washington regarding Far Eastern matters without\nparticipation of any representative of Australia. Australia believed\nthat it had a deep and important interest in all questions affecting\nthe Far East area. It felt that its close association with the United\nStates in the war and the important part which it had played in the\nwar, as well as the important part which it was playing in Far Eastern\naffairs, entitled it to be present and to explain its views when Far\nEastern matters vere discussed. He said that he was delivering this\nmessage with due deference and respect, and he knew that I would under-\nstand the spirit in which it was meant.\nI replied that the mesasge was a nost surprising one, and that\nI was not at all aure that I understood it.\nI said that the United States had taken the position in 1947,\nwhich was reaffirmed in Paris, that the negotiation of the peace\ntreaty in the Far East should be made with the full participation of\nthe FEC countries and that was the present attitude of the United\nStates Government. I knew of no resson which would lead to our chang-\ning it, BO that Mr. Evatt could be assured that our attitude on this\nmatter remained the same.\nI gaid that, on the other hand, there were many questions in\nthe Far East on which the United States Government was continually\nexchanging views with other Governments, and that recently in Washington\nI had exchanged views with Mr. Stikker on the progress of the round-\ntable discussions and was much interested to learn from him his\nestimate of the progress of those talks. The President and I have\ntalked with the President of the Philippines on questions affecting\nthe United States and the Philippines. I had talked with Mr. Sehuman\non matters affecting Indo China and with Mr. Bevin on economic and\nother questions affecting Malaya and Burma. Mr. Bevin had also given\nme his estimate of the situation in Hong Kong.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDENTIAL\nDept. of State letter, 13.23.75\nBg NLT. HC NARS Date4.27.76"
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