MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
October 31, 1952
PARTICIPANTS: Secretary Acheson Foreign Minister of Canada, Mr. Lester B. Pearson
Mr. Pearson mentioned the accounts which had appeared in the newspapers about the project, supposed to flow from Senator Wiley, of the resolution which Mr. Pearson thought was directed toward giving various governments the right to object to their own nationals employed by the United Nations. He said that this might be a most dangerous and disturbing project and wanted to know what we had in mind and hoped that we also had in mind the number of Czechs and others who were non-communists who might be objected to by their own governments. He also said that we would have a tremendous uproar about human rights, legal procedures, etc., which might cause the gravest difficulty in connection with other matters. He hoped that we had realized the delicacy of this matter.
I said that I realized the delicacy of it, and that, while I had not been in touch with those who were working on the matter in our delegation today, our purpose had been to confer with the Secretary General's staff and work out with them a proposal which would give the Secretary General the powers which he and his staff thought were needed. Mr. Pearson expressed strong approval of our being in touch with the Secretary General's office and hoped that we would proceed with caution.
Dean Acheson
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