PARIS, 4 August 1946, 2.45 p.m.

Many thanks for your telegrams. [1] I am giving them both careful
consideration and fully realise your great difficulties. The
United Kingdom Government is concerned as well as Australia, and
this being the first occasion on which we hold the position in
which we are acting for all the British Commonwealth Countries
with interests in the Pacific, I am particularly anxious not to
embarrass any of these countries apart from Australia. I realise
that Atcheson must be proving difficult, but on the other hand
from my experience of the Soviet Union at New York and Paris, I am
satisfied that they are conducting an offensive of nerves against
Western Countries including United States. You know how hard I
have struggled to resist mere anti-Russian sentiment but at the
same time Soviet's conduct at International Conferences amounts to
tactics well known in Communistic circles of systematic
obstruction, sabotage and determination to win by resorting to
weapons of fatigue and almost open intimidation. I am sure you
will see necessity for discouraging the use of all such methods
against which I shall always be ready to fight. If you approve, I
would like you to show this cable to MacArthur and obtain his
reaction. [2] Also give him my deepest personal regards.