1. The Australian Government's election to the governing body [1]
followed protracted negotiations with several blocs since a
situation developed in which canvassing of individual votes could
not affect the result. Latin Americans were determined to obtain
four out of the eight vacancies and made a pact with the
Scandinavian Group for mutual support of their nominee. The Middle
East bloc decided to support Egypt and the Slav Group, Poland, and
both made reciprocal agreements with the Latins and Scandinavians.

Australia's only hope was to obtain reciprocal support of all four
groups.

2. Following your advice re Chile and Mexico [2] and knowing that
Macgregor was approaching the Brazilian Government we initiated
discussions through Ambassadors and Delegates of those Countries.

The Latins offered Reciprocal support if we could induce New
Zealand and South Africa to vote for Latin nominees. New Zealand
agreed, South Africa saw no reason not to vote for us but was
lukewarm towards the Latins. The United Kingdom having at our
request brought some pressure upon the Scandinavians and Egypt we
then approached those groups jointly with the Latins and pledged
New Zealand's vote with our own. The Slavs then sought
Scandinavian and Latin support for Poland agreeing to sacrifice
Yugoslavia. We accordingly negotiated similar agreement with
Poland.

3. As a result of these negotiations only eight Governments were
nominated, all of which were elected on the first ballot, namely
Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Sweden, Egypt, Australia, Poland.

4. The Workers Group elected Monk [3] along with the United
Kingdom, United States, French, Canadian, Swedish, Chinese and
Mexican Delegates. The Employers Group has an arrangement for
rotating representation which according to Oberg [4] affords
satisfactory representation for Australia.

WALKER