Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

My telegrams 18th December, 1944, D.1827 and 2nd January D.5. [1]
Voting in the Security Council.
1. After further consideration here in the light of your reply [2]
and those of the other British Commonwealth Governments, His
Majesty's United Kingdom Ambassador at Washington has been
instructed to inform the United States Secretary of State that His
Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are prepared to accept
the President's proposed compromise solution.
2. We have added that we are still not entirely clear as to the
precise effect of applying to Chapter VIII, Section C, paragraph 1
the rule that parties to a dispute should N 0 T vote but we do not
anticipate any difficulty on this score.
3. Lord Halifax has been asked to remind Mr. Stettinius that the
question of voting is N O T the only one that remains to be
settled before a United Nations Conference could be called, that
all the difficulties will N O T probably have been got out of the
way before next Three-Power meeting and that therefore he should N
O T go ahead precipitately. Moreover the idea was that the
invitation to the event[ual] conference should be in the name of
three (or four) powers and consequently consultation will be
necessary before the invitation is issued.
4. We are considering further the various questions raised in
reply to my telegram D. No. 1827. Meanwhile please see the
individual replies in my immediately following telegrams. [3]