Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, with Attachment
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OCR Page 1 of 4December 11, 1947
Memorandum for: Acting Secretary of State
From:
The President
I read with a lot of interest your memorandum of the
tenth in regard to the Philippine situation.
It seems to me that if our Delegation to the United Nations
is to be interferred with by members of the United States
Senate and by pressure groups in this country we will be
helping the United Nations down the road to failure.
The conversation between the President of the Philippines
and our Ambassador is most interesting.
I have a report from Haiti, in which it is stated that our
Counsul in Haiti approached the President of that country
and suggested to him that for his own good he should order
the vote of his country changed, claiming that he had in-
structions from me to make such a statement to the President
of Haiti. As you very well know, I refused to make statements
to any country on the subject of its vote in the United Nations.
It is perfectly apparent that pressure groups will succeed in
putting the United Nations out of business if this sort of thing
is continued and I am very anxious that it be stopped.
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