Cablegram 481 CANBERRA, 15 August 1947, 10.10 p.m.
MOST IMMEDIATE SECRET
Your UN760 [1] part 2.
We have not yet received part 1 of your report [2] and unless you hear to the contrary before the next meeting of the Security Council go ahead with instructions as already given. [3]
2. We are aware that majority decision is not certain but are prepared to accept defeat rather than agree to unsatisfactory compromise.
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1 Document 285.
2 See Document 285, note 1.
3 See Documents 280, 283 and 284. Dispatched at 11.30 p.m. on 15 August (after receipt of part 1 of Document 285), cablegram 482 to the Delegation confirmed the instruction to proceed with a draft resolution seeking the establishment of commissions of arbitration and observation, a separate vote to be taken on the latter if necessary.
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[AA:A1838/274, 854/10/4, ii]