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    "ocrText": "3/14/54 Reel 3, Track 1, Page 6\nthan we do. But I am still puzzled as to how we can all work with all\nthe thought and everything else we can put on it how we can improve the--\nhow we can do a better job in the UN, because the thing is almost calcu-\nlated to be such that no one can do a good job.\nMR. NITZE:\nWell, I was just recollecting the various things which we did do. I r emem-\nber the peri od when there was a committee under your chairmanship which\ngot into this question of the relationship betwen the African problems\nand the Europem problems, and tried to develop positions on all the various\naspects of this thing. Well, I think that this was ureful, but I am not\nsure that we really advanced the ball too far, because we were still left\nin a position where you knew perfectly well what was going to happen to\nyou vis-a-vis the Asisan countries-you weren't doing enough for the Asian\ncountries; you knew you were not doing enough to put yourself clearly in\na favorable position with the European countries. You knew there were\ndangers in straddling the issues-~that you were going to get hated from\nTRUMAN\nboth sides, but you knew that you couldn't do anything else but, so that\nwhen we got through wi th the whole thing we still were in the same unsatis-\nfactory position that we started on. And I think that it was worthwhile,\nhaving done that prelininary work; but I don't think just by pre-work on\nthese issues that you avoid what are really inherently just nasty problems.\nThey are still nasty when you get through with them.\nMR. RUSK:\nMy boss in the State Department may not have seen any evidence of this,\nabout\nbut/once a month I used to sit down and write out a little topical list\nof the things that I thought I ought to be worrying about, and they'd\nrun to about 60 or 70 each month-you see them on that yellow sheet of\npaper. And the interesting thing about that was to look back to a list\nthat had been made up about nine months before to see how many of those\nthings, how many of those problems had changed their shape, and how many\nof them sort of tended to disappear, even though you didn't do much about\nit, if anything about it. And that suggested to me that one of the prob-"
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