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OCR Page 1 of 143/14/54: Reel 2, Track 2, Page 1
MR. ACHESON:
Now, this was the result of a press conference which Ernie Gross had had;
and Ernie had gotten really excited about this and had broken down and told
the truth, which was not the best thing to do under those circumstances.
Although I think in fact it was all right; I think that as it turned out
it was all right, but it might have been very bad. It produced quite a
crisis, and we had meetings about this, and the British were very cross
about it. And I regretted that this had been done but said it was a fact;
and after all, they had to face this thing, and our people were disinte-
grating, and I was going to pull them together. So we had a meeting with
the Latin Americans and got them enthusiastically on our side; we had two
or three meetings wit th the group of 21, and we began to work out some
amendments which, if made to Menon's proposal, we could get along with.
In the meantime, all of this had gone to Washington and I had gotten back
instructions from the President as to what we could do and where we were
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to stand. On the 24th we had a meeting of the Committee One, in which to
everybody's intense surprise Vishinsky turned down Meon-not merely
turned him dbwn, but rather made fun of him, insulted him and caused a
very bad reaction in the whole committee. We immediately had another
meeting of the 21-group, another meeting of the Latin American group;
and negotiations went forward in which we got the Dutch, I think, and-
who were the other ones--the Dutch and Greeks put in amendments. There
were two members of the 21-nation group that we got to put in amendments
which the British would not commit themselves to support but which they
eventually did support. On the 27th, which was a Friday--we were to
adjourn over the weekend-T think we took up and voted on Menon's reso-
lution as the first order of business the next Monday; and on the next
Monday we came back, adopted the amendments and adopted the resolution,
voted down all other resolutions, with only five votes against it--it
was 54 to 5, wasn't it--the Chinese didn't for it or against. Now, as
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