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3/14/54: Reel 3, Track 1, Page 1 MR. JESSUP: I was just trying to make the point that many of these issues were handled in rather a routine way, until you would suddenly come to a General Assem-- bly in New York and then they would be thrown in your lap. They were things you could not wrestle with; people had alr eady carried them to a point where probably there was no particular way out, where it seemed to me on a number of occasions that, if they had been treated as matters of more consequence, from the mere fact that they were subject to world dis- cussion in the UN, they would have received better guidance. And just as an instance of something that came up out of the routine into a larger question, I think the whole problem of human rights-which has a lot to do with the fight on the Bricker Amendment and so on-partly due to the fact that every one left it to Mrs. Roosevelt and her particular advisors; no one was really keeping a look at it to see what its ultimate implications were. And she adopted the policy of saying, "Well, I'll warn you that we may not get this ratified; but if this is what you want then we '11 agree that it will go in." And so that you finally got a build-up of something which the United States was approving and yet which, when it was realized in the Senate particularly, brings down a great howl of denunciation of for the UN and all sorts of things. I think that is another instance in which the difficulty of the operation prevented us from realizing in time, or the this , analyzing in time, the issues that were going to get bigger in importance. And another line of thought which has turned around in my mind is that, if you look at a much smaller operation which was of such immediate cri- tical importance that you did have to give your attention to it-namely, the problem of NATO and of holding that group together, that was done; and we kept ? ; but it seened to me that in the total picture we had a problem also of holding the Latinos and the Arabl Nations and some of the others on our side in some of these big issues, And that, instead of working on that as a problem throughout the year, we just had to work