Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Panama Jose Ramon Guizado, and John C. Pool

UNITED STATES DELEGATION 1024 TO THE SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION October 22, 1952 324 SUBJECT: Talk with Panamanian Foreign Minister PARTICIPANTS The Panamanian Foroign Minister, Jose Ramon Guizado The Secretary Mr. John C. Pool At the Secretary's invitation Forsign Minister Guizado called on him today. at 12:00. After the usual exchange of pleasantries the Secretary said be had nothing particular to talk about but that he had just wanted to take advantage of the Foreign Minister's presence in New York to have a chat. Mx. Guizado thanked the Secretary for having invited him. Mr. Guizado asked when the Korean issue would be coning up. The Secretary replied that it dia not matter to us, that at the moment it was the third item on the agenda of Committes 1, but that some Delegates evidently felt it should be moved up to first place. Ha added that the matter would be decided at this afternoon's session. The Secretary said that his view was simply that the items on the agenda should be taken up at the time when they could be discussed most profitably; and that as far as the Tunisian item vent, it would be better to wait until Forsign Minister Schuman got here in November. He said that if Hoppenot were to handle it now for the French, he would doubtless have to bring to an issue the question of competence of the Assembly to discuss the matter, and that Hoppenot might have to walk out if the Assembly ruled that it was competent; whereas Schuman. a 7 more moderate man, might be induced, after ha had gotten here and sensed the fealing of the Assembly, not to make an issue of the compo- tence leaving both sides in a better position of being able to come to some agreement on the vhole matter. As for the compe- tence of the Assembly, the Secretary pointed out that both Tunisia and Morocco were sovereign states, which through treaties had given certain rights to the French. It was, therefore, clearly an international mattero The Foreign Minister wholly agreed, and said that all his Latin American colleagues definitely felt that the Assembly should discuss T. DECLASSIFIED E. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or EE O. 10-27-76 Dept. of State letter, By NLT- He , NARS Date 11.29.76