Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DECLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT OF STATE E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON By NLT- He NARS, Date 11-12-20 November 4, 1946 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UNITED We are opposed to the formation of blocs in the United NATIONS Nations for any purpose and will not be bound by the results of a caucus of Latin American Delegations which is being organized by the Argentine Delegation to select Latin American candidates for posts on the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. Gromyko has informed our Delegation that the USSR favors the re-election of Yugoslavia and the election of Byelorussia to succeed the Ukraine on ECOSOC. He indicated that if we would support these two candidates, the USSR would go along with the US slate for the Security Council. We believe the Soviet and other Delegations should be told that if members interested in particular trusteeship agreements do not accept our proposal to waive for the purposes of this Assembly claims to be states directly concerned and if they attempt to have the Assembly define this term, we will take the position that no state other than the mandatory should be determined by the Assembly to be a state directly concerned in the case of any of the proposed agreements. We would accord ingly vote against any proposed general principle of interpretation inconsistent with this view and would also vote against the designation of any individual member state, other than the mandatory in each case, as a state directly concerned. Any other interpretation of the Charter would be an unnecessary extention of the veto principle which has no place in the deliberations of the Assembly. The Soviet expert on the Atomic Energy Commission has informed a member of our staff that Molotov will make a speech before the Assembly clarifying the Soviet position on international control of atomic energy. ALBANIA We have decided to withdraw our Mission from Albania immediately and will inform the Albanian Government that the Mission has been unable to achieve the purposes for which it was originally sent-namely, to bring about mutual understanding and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Albania. GERMANY The German head of the Soviet zonal administration for industry has informed one of our representatives that he understood that the recent deportation to the USSR of German workers and the dismantling of German plants was only decided upon when it became evident