246 Department of External Affairs to Evatt and Australian Delegation, United Nations
Cablegrams A92, UNY52 CANBERRA, 15 May 1946
IMMEDIATE SECRET
United Nations No. 122. [1]
1. We attach the utmost importance to the election of Australia to
the Economic and Employment Commission. If not elected, we should
be represented on at least one of its sub-commissions.
2. As it is impossible to guarantee the availability of the three
individuals mentioned, it is desirable to concentrate on national
representation. [2]
1 Dispatched 13 May, it proposed that the names of Wilson, Coombs
and Melville be canvassed for elections to the Economic and
Employment Commission and its sub-commissions at the second
session of the Economic and Social Council, beginning 25 May.
2 Elections for the Economic and Employment and other Commissions
were in fact deferred until the Council's third session, but
Australia was appointed to the Temporary Sub-Commission on the
Economic Reconstruction of Devastated Areas, and represented
thereon by Walker in London and by Copland on the Sub-Commission's
working party on Asia.
[AA:A1067, ER46/3/8]
