IMMEDIATE

Your telegram 69.

The following reply has been received from the United States
Secretary of State:-

'The Secretary of State acknowledges the personal message of Dr.

Evatt and is giving it careful consideration. The Secretary
regrets that Dr. Evatt believes that there is danger that the
latest United States proposal on voting will merely reproduce the
friction and misunderstanding of the Paris Conference. The
Secretary has grave doubts that it will be possible, as Dr. Evatt
suggests, to induce the Soviet Union to depart completely from the
pattern [of a] [1] preliminary text of the treaty prepared by the
Council of Foreign Ministers and for that reason has endeavoured
to secure for other Allied States a more active participation in
the preparation of the preliminary text. As Dr. Evatt is
undoubtedly aware, the United States has given aggressive support
to the desire of Australia and other Allied States to participate
in the actual drafting of the peace settlement and has joined Mr.

Bevin in this effort'.