Cablegram 663 WASHINGTON, 27 May 1946, 10.48 a.m.
SECRET
Your 783, F.A.0. Conference. [1]
1. Our 662 [2] reports results on the new organization and is not
inconsistent with your 783. On production and export policies your
general instructions are being followed.
2. On membership of the Central Committee we did not succeed in
gaining Dr. Evatt's objective of equal status with Canada.
National representatives previously hostile to the Combined Food
Board who have been at the U.N.R.R.A. Council and this conference
have been convinced that the Combined Food Board did the best
possible job except in explaining itself and insisted on
expressing appreciation by making the three Governments ex officio
members. Dr. Evatt has been informed. We shall probably get
elected when the new council meets but only by increasing the
membership to at least twelve.
3. For preparing the long range programme F.A.0. will consult the
Economic and Social Council and report to a F.A.0. Conference
expected to meet in Copenhagen late in August after the U.N.R.R.A.
Council meets in Paris. Reports will go to the United Nations
Assembly in September.
4. Bulcock will telegraph personally as soon as possible.
Argentina attended the final session of the Committee on
organization and will speak at the final Plenary Meeting Monday.
[3]
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