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169. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ( Cleveland ) to Secretary of State Rusk

sibility. The development of voting blocs in the Assembly is deplored by some people; yet they are not only inevitable in so large a body but also potentially a force for more responsible actions by individual delegates. During the Cuban debate, the Nigerian delegate proposed to amend the Latin American resolution in an unfriendly way; he was brought to his senses by a Latin American threat to prevent a two-thirds majority for a resolution on the Cameroun issue that was favorable to the Nigerian point of view. The immersion of excitable diplomats in practical politics of this kind has its educ…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1961-05-02
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXV, Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; Unite
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v25/d169
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v25/d169`

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169. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ( Cleveland ) to Secretary of State Rusk. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v25/d169.