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that was the way it was worked out. We want to watch this, `because we
don't want to go beyond uhat-quarter past ten (short discussion regarding
time)
MR. RUSK:
I want to comment on those rules of procedure, because I think
they're worth some further analysis by Stevenson in the national (confused)
There have never been such rules of procedure in the history of
DR. Oppenheimer: How did they ever get adopted?
MR. RUSK:
These rules were negotiated out with some of our allies in advance. The
rules were set up in such a way that, before the rules of procedure were
adopted, any discussion of substance was out of order. After the rules
discussions
of procedure were of substance were out of order because
questions of substance had been decided in the rules of procedure. And
FRUMAN
when I submitted these drafts of procedure to one of my colleagues in the
iN 5 &
the
office of United Nations Affairs-the officer who was an expert in rules
Vs announg
of procedure--it was passed back to me with the comment, "These are
shocking rules of procedure!" Because it was completely sewed up. The
Secretary was in the chair as Chairman in an absolutely impregnable posi-
tion, which he had to maintain against a very resistant Communist delegation
once in a while
MR. FEIS:
By what rules of procedure did you get these rules of procedure adopted?
MR. RUSK:
Well, we issued invitations to come to San Francisco to sign this draft of
the
treaty in the first place, you see. So that anybody that came was
committed by the invitation to sign this draft. Then we had the rules
of procedure, which had been negotiated out ahead of time. We gave them
to the Russians only 24 hours before the convention opened.
MR. FEIS:
But you had negotiated these rules with key delegates
MR. RUSK:
With key delegates
MR. ACHESON:
..In San Francisco
MR. JESSUP:
But on Herb's point the rule was that the temporary Chairman had the
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