Assembly 314.

1. Sub-Committee of Committee one to discuss veto resolutions met
today and elected Denmark to chairmanship. Australia and Cuba
opposed a move to meet in private and sessions are proceeding in
public.

2. In public session we spoke first to ensure that our resolution
be made basis of discussion and announced that while we had no
objection to Soviet proposals [1], subject to clarification, we
saw no conflict with our own proposals [2] which we maintained.

3. Five-hour session produced new texts from Venezuela, China,
France, India and Poland. Soviet expressed readiness to accept
part of our fourth paragraph [3] but nothing else. We worked to
maintain our text in face of strong tendency to compromise,
although United Kingdom, United States, China and France expressed
with varying degrees of firmness their acceptance of operative
part of our resolution. We are working hard to hold them to this
view. If tendency for compromise becomes marked we may have to
insist on returning our resolution to Assembly unaltered, and risk
losing some of our present majority. There is a strong body of
opinion in committee against any implication of blame against the
Security Council or Soviet and several proposals have been made to
delete our second paragraph.

4. The Philippine proposal [4] has been withdrawn and Cuban
resolution [5] looking to revision of Charter will be presented to
the committee separately from our resolution.