International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

247. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, November 16, 1960

expense of the Security Council might be reversed. However, Mr. Merchant said, it is too early to give up hope that the General Assembly may become a more useful and stable organ after the new African leaders acquire experience in UN procedures and Nigeria and the new French community states begin to exercise a stabilizing influence on some other African nations. While admitting that the current General Assembly was the most disorderly in fifteen years, partly as a result of Khrushchev ’s behavior, Mr. Merchant did not think a continued deterioration of the Assembly’s usefulness can yet be acc…