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J. . 333305MONO-State Galley 664 UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF 2. It was decided to make the following recommendations to the Plenary Meeting: (a) The United Nations Conference on the proposed World Organ- ization should be summoned for Wednesday, 25th April, 1945, and should be held in the United States of America, (b) The United Nations, as they existed on February * 1945, N. B. The blank represents the date of the end of the Conference. [Footnote n the original.] i i. e. those who had at that date signed the United Nations Declara- tion, would be the only states invited to the Conference on World Organization. It will be for the Conference to determine the list of original members of the Organization. At that stage the Delegates of the U. K. and U. S. A. will support the proposal to admit to original membership two Soviet Socialist Republics. 1 For subsequent memorandum on the negotiation of this decision, see post, pp.- 3. The Foreign Ministers' meeting has established a sub-committee to examine further details in connection with the proposals for a World Organization and will report shortly to the Plenary Meeting. 2 Copies of text as read by Eden were found in the UNA Files and the Hiss Collection. MR. EDEN concluded by saying that they were glad to accept the invitation of the United States Government to hold the meeting on April 25 in the United States. He added that he hoped that the next meeting of Foreign Ministers would, therefore, take place in London. Mr. Eden stated, in commenting on the report, that the British Delegation did not think it right for others to share the status of United Nations membership merely in order to participate in the Conference, but he understood that the United States Delegation had other views. He said a sub-committee was considering the details. MARSHAL STALIN said that among the states which would be represented at the conference there were ten who had no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. He said that it was somewhat strange for the Soviet Government to attempt to build future world security with states which did not desire to have diplomatic relations with it. He asked what could be done about this matter. THE PRESIDENT replied that he knew that most of these states would like to have relations with the Soviet Union but had just not gotten around to doing anything about it. There were a few, how- ever, where the reasons were different and where the influence of the Catholic Church was very strong. He said that he would like to point out, however, that the Soviet Union had sat down with these states at Bretton Woods and UNRRA conferences. MARSHAL STALIN replied that this was correct but that at this conference they were to consider the vital question of the establish- ment of world security. THE PRESIDENT then said that he would have to go back a bit into history. Three years ago the then Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Welles, had told these few American Republics that it was not neces- sary to declare war on Germany but only to break diplomatic relations. 3 The Hopkins note (post, p. was apparently passed to the President at about this point. Therefore, there were five or six South American countries who felt that they had taken the advice of the United States Government and were, therefore, in good standing. It was a fact, be added, that

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