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like the devil, as you did on the Korean case in '52, in order to keep
these people in line. And that we have got actually a continuing problem
of holding even the little fellows; and the little fellows have more signi-
ficance today because of their possibility of agitating in the UN and
therefore this becomes a problem which is really more serious than it
appears on its face because of the rather irresponsible and inherent incon-
sequential character of the actors.
MR. RUSK:
I think another difficulty arises when our over-all strategy in the UN
systematically
is not/thought of ahead of time in terms of maintaining leadership in this
big, free-world coalition. Where you go into an Assembly with 60 or 70
items on the agenda, scattered through six committees, the tendency is
for each delegate and for each staff officer to want to get our exact
position on each one of those 60 or 70 points; and you sort of total up
TRUMAND
your score at the end to see what your batting average is. Now, from
ARCHIVESH ADMING
the point of view of the Secretary of State, it might be wise to look over
the entire pattern and determine those which we consider of the most vital
importance and those which are comparatively secondary in character. So
that some of our friends may get some satisfaction out of the modification
of view on the minor items on our side and yet-and then stay with us on
the more important things. I think when we try to get exactly 100% of
everything we think we want then we go to the Assembly, we get to be a
little bit difficult to live with. And some of the other countries find
it difficult to get any of their own prestige out of the situation. For
example, we had a little working arrangement wit h Carlos Romulo over a
period of several years, where he EK would give us complete support in
Committee One on security and political matters, but he felt free to sound
off at great length and with great vior in the Trusteeship of the Depen-
denarians (sp?) Committee on the colonial issue. Well, he made a lot of
speeches that our fellows didn't particularly like, but that was sort of
an understood procedure; he could do that; it didn't hurt us very much
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