Beautiful day, about 68°.
Revised the long cable to George 【葉公超] on Suez and sent it off. Alfred Kohlberg asked me to go to lunch with him over the phone. When he arrived, we found it was a mistake. He had intended to ask C. M. Chang 【張純明]. His secretary and he himself did not detect my voice. The names Chang and Tsiang were indistinguishable to them.
At 3, the Lebanese representative came. On behalf of Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan, he requested to abstain on Israel’s request to be heard in the Suez debate. Promised to consider.
At 4, with Hsueh 【薛毓麒], went to see Lodge. He promised that the resolution on representation would not contain the phrase “for the current calendar year.” He estimated that the Reds would get 23 votes; about the same as my estimate. On the Suez, he favored a small negotiating committee and no censure of Egypt. Probably he would favor a hard and fast demand for internationalization. He hoped that Israel’s request for a hearing might be postponed.
At 5:30, Hsueh and I saw Hammarskjold on the Suez. He hoped that the U.K. and France would not table a hard and fast resolutions, would not table any resolutions in the early part of the debate, and that Egypt would come out with something positive. He wanted some closed meetings. Council sitting as Committee of the Whole or with a smaller group.
Dinner with Hsu 【徐柏園], Minister of Finance, in the Carlyle Hotel.