Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman with Related Material

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85-P 7 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Is Senate 2/10/49 THE WASHINGTON February 8, 1949 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Appointments to the Security Council and to the Interim HASPITAL HARRY NATIONAL TRUMAN LIBRARY Committee of the General Assembly ARCHIVES AND RECORDS of the United Nations. SERVICE U.S. GOVERNMENT Due to the reassignment of Philip C. Jessup as Ambassador at Large, there now exists two vacancies in the United States Mission to the United Nations, namely, Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, and Deputy Representative of the United States in the Interim Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations. To fill these vacancies, I recommend, for your x85-A approval, the appointments of John C. Ross, now Deputy to the United States Representative to the United Nations to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as the Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, and Charles P. Noyes as Deputy Representative of the United States of America on the Interim Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Mr. Noyes is to receive compensation at the rate of $12,000 per annum. I also recommend that Mr. Ross be designated Deputy Chief of the United States Mission to the United Nations in the place of Mr. Jessup who has held this appointment also. These appointments are in accordance with the provisions of Sections 2(b) and 2(d), respectively, of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945. There are attached herewith for your signature the nomination of John C. Ross as Deputy Repre- # sentative in the Security Council, plus a letter addressed to Mr. Ross as Deputy Chief of the United States Mission to the United Nations, and a letter addressed to Mr. Noyes as Deputy Representative on the Interim Committee of the General Assembly. Asan Gahron Enclosures: Nomination and draft letters. x20