Letter from Philip Jessup to Dean Acheson

S. c is AND Columbia Unimersity City of Hem Dork 421 West 117th St. New York 27. SCHOOL OF LAW Feb. 24/54 Dear Dean: Your deposition to hand and contents noted. I think you have a good program blocked out and I have only a few suggestions. In connection with the bottom of page one ór the tope of page 2, I would recall that one of the difficulties about our relations in the Pacific area --in addition to the UK jealousy of our Anzus set-up- was the French fear of being left out. This posed for us the danger of setting up a "white man's league" in an Asian sphere to the increasing detriment of our relations with India and other Asian nations, including even the Philippines In the difficulties of concluding a generous treaty with Japan my recollection is that the bitterness of the Philippine hostility plus their domestic political hullabaloo about reparations was a factor worth noting. Re the San Francisco conference don't forget television : I miss any reference to Indo-China which certainly worried us many times. Maybe. that comes in when you discuss France, or maybe it fits better at the top of page 3. I like the suggestion about -atin America. We would certainly want Eddie Miller to join in on that. To be sure I still hope we can devote a little time to the general UN problem and I think you have brought out my point of view. I think I said in my previous letter however that it was this last Assembly which particularly showed a loss of leadership; we have had our ups and downs. Impartially speaking, your handling of the Korean issue boosted our stock. Our stand on Tunis and Morocco (which I think we could not have avoided) and the usual Palestinian pestilence played us down. The quality of our permanent representative and the composition of our delegations are factors --this is very clear these days. Did you read about Mason Sears asking the Trusteeship Council to pass a resolution commend- ing a black African for killing a lion with a six-inch knife while the lion was chewing a white African ?Your friend Krishna Menon moved that the meeting adjourn at once However, I don't think we ought to take up any subject unless you feel it worth while enough for you to make your com- ments. As I said last time at Princeton, it would be a different kind of animal altogether if some-one elsemerely laid out his ideas on a subject. Of course I, and I would be sure Dean Rusk, would be glad to pitch in and help. Sincerelz yours Philip C. Jessup