REGULATION OF ARMAMENTS


    Mr. tickerson informed Amb assador Bonnet that we would be
  planning to consult the French aswell as the British on a number of
  General Assembly issues and that we would be glad to undertake
  separate talks on atomic energy. It was agreed that the Ambassador
  would so inform M. Chativel in New York as wele as his Government,
  and that Mr. John Ross, who is the ranking US wrepresentative for
  atomic energy problems at tho Mission, riould be authorized to par-
  ticipate, possibly with the assistance of an expert from the Depart-

  ment. The French will take the initiative in raising the matter in
  New York.
    Mr. Hickerson suggested that in order to avoid complications with
 regard to Chinese participation in the informal ýtalks, it would
be
 better to limitChe discussions to American, British and French irepre-

 sentatives, excluding the Canadians. The Ambassador agreed.


 330.11/8-1150: Telegram
 The Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the
                       United Nations (Austin)
 SECRET -WASHINGTON, August 14, 1950-7 p. m.
   143. For Ross from Hickerson. After discussion subject urtel 257'
 am firmly of opinion no meeting of six permanent members of
 UNAEC should be called. Position majority unassailable and cannot
 be improved by asking Malik whether he still means what he said
 when he walked out in Jan. We already have Malik's refusal to par-
 ticipate on the record. Majority statement in letr 30 Jan to SYG,
 UNAEC, and all UN members is, in effect, report to GA.
   A meeting might give an illusion of progress, would divert attention
 from important issues, and should Malik appear, would risk all the
 dangers arising from debating again the issue of Chinese representa-
 tion without any compensating advantages.2 [Hickerson.]

                                                           ACHESON
  in telegram 257 from New York, August 11, Ross reported that Jean Chauvel,
French Representative to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, had raised the
possibility of addressing a communication to ýSoviet Representative
Malik con-
cerning the possibility of his return to the forum of the six sponsoring
powers
(Malik had returned to the Security Council at the beginning of August)
(330.11/8-1150),
  'In a conversation of August 28, Hickerson informed Chauvel and Sir Gladwyn
Jebb, Permanent British Representative at the United Nations and to the
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, of the opposition of the United States to
an
approach to Malik. He indicated, however, that if the other four sponsors
favored
such an initiative, the United States would go along with that course of
action.
(10 Files: US/AEC/51) No evidence that the French proposal was pursued
has been found in the files of the Department of State.


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