Resumen:
I am enclosing for your information a copy of the request
for an oral hearing in the Fourth Commit tee of the United
Nations General Assembly by the Delegate of the "Nationalist
Party" of Puerto Rico in the United States, Julio Pinto Gandia
(A/c. 4/239, 15 October 1953). This petition was circulated at
the request of the Polish Delegation at the outset of yesterday's
meeting of the Commi t tee . 1fe did not oppose its
circulation for two reasons: (a) opposit ion on our part to
circulating the petition would have placed u s in the position
of attempting to withhold information from the Committee;
(b) if we had opposed its circulation, the vote on this
matter would have come at a time when a very large number of
our friends in the Committee had not yet taken their seats...