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IO Files: US/A/443

United States Delegation Working Paper

[ New York ,] September 23, 1947.

Organization of Delegates for Work of General Assembly

The Secretary, Chairman of the Delegation

Ambassador Austin, Deputy to the Secretary as Chairman of the Delegation, and Acting Chairman in his absence.

General Committee

  • Ambassador Austin
  • Ambassador Johnson

Committee 1 (Political and Security)

  • The Secretary
  • Ambassador Austin
  • Ambassador Johnson
  • Mr. Dulles
  • Note: Principal responsibility on certain subjects has been assigned to other Delegates. See attached list of assignment of Committee 1 subjects.
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Committee 2 (Economic and Financial)

  • Mr. Thorp

Committee 3 (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural)

  • Mrs. Roosevelt

Committee 4 (Trusteeship)

  • Mr. Dulles
  • Ambassador Sayre

Committee 5 (Administrative and Budgetary)

  • Ambassador Austin
  • Mr. Stevenson

Committee 6 (Legal)

  • Mr. Fahy

Committee on Palestine

  • Ambassador Johnson
  • General Hilldring

Headquarters Committee

  • Ambassador Austin

Assignments of Subjects on Committee 1

The Secretary—Chairman of the Delegation

  • General responsibility; specific responsibility as circumstances require

Ambassador Austin—Deputy to the Secretary as Chairman of the Delegation, and Acting Chairman in his absence

  • Report of the Security Council
    • Atomic Energy
    • Conventional Armaments
    • Implementation of Article 43
  • U.S.S.R. Resolution on “Measures to be Taken Against Propaganda and the Inciters of a New War”

Ambassador Johnson

  • Palestine
  • Threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of Greece

Mr. Dulles

  • Voting procedure in the Security Council
  • Interim Committee on Peace and Security of the General Assembly Korea
  • Greece—assistance to Ambassador Johnson

Mrs. Roosevelt

  • U.S.S.R. Resolution on “Measures to be Taken Against Propaganda and the Inciters of a New War”—assistance to Ambassador Austin
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Mr. Fahy

  • Indians in South Africa
  • Spain

Mr. Thorp

  • Revision of Italian Peace Treaty

General Hilldring

  • Korea—assistance to Mr. Dulles
  • Palestine—assistance to Ambassador Johnson

Mr. Stevenson

  • Membership