My telegram 9th February D No. 258. [1] World Organisation.

A meeting of Foreign Secretaries was held on 9th February to
consider the following points:

(A) To consider the question of membership of the World
Organisation by two or three Republics of the Soviet Union;

(B) To recommend what States should be invited to the proposed
United Nations Conference, and
(C) To recommend the time and place at which the Conference should
be held.

2. It was agreed that a suitable date for Conference would be
toward
the end of April and that United States should be the place. Mr.

Eden entered a caveat that in that event we would expect the next
meeting of Foreign Secretaries to be in London and Mr. Molotov and
Mr. Stettinius both agreed.

3. As regards the Soviet claim for membership in the Organisation
for the Ukraine, White Russia and Lithuania, Mr. Eden said that he
was, in principle, sympathetic towards the inclusion of two of the
Soviet Republics and would be ready to say so at an appropriate
moment. Mr. Stettinius also seemed favourable but said that he
would have to consult the President.

4. As regards the question whether invitation should be limited to
United Nations, Mr. Stettinius put in a strong claim for
'Associated Nations' and Mr. Eden said that Turkey also came into
this category. It was agreed that Countries which had declared war
and signed the declaration by a certain date would qualify for
invitations. As regards the two Soviet Republics it would be left
to the Conference to decide whether they should be chosen as
founder members or not.

5. The report of the Foreign Secretaries was considered at a
plenary meeting and adopted as follows:-

(a) The United Nations conference on the proposed World
Organisation should be summoned for Wednesday 25th April and
should be held in the United States of America;

(b) The United Nations as they existed on 1st March, 1945, that is
those who had at that date signed United Nations Declaration would
be the only States invited to the Conference on World
Organisation. It will be for the Conference to determine the list
of original members of the Organisation. At that stage Delegates
of the United Kingdom and United States will support the proposal
to admit to original membership two Soviet Socialist Republics,
namely Ukraine and Belo Russia.