Telegram from Jefferson Caffery to Secrertary of State Edward Stettinius

DEPARTMENT INCOMING DIVISION OF OF CENTRAL SERVICES STATE TELEGRAM TELEGRAPH SECTION EOC-1180 Paris This telegram must be closely paraphrased be- Dated June 5, 1945 fore being communicated to anyone (SECRET) Rec'd 11:10 peme Secretary of State, DECLASSIFIED Washington. E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 US URGENT By NLT WH NARS Date 7-25-75 NIACT 3319, June 5, 7 p.m. TOP TORSECRET Bidault tells me that he had to face a very stormy session of the Council of Ministers this morning General de Gaulle began by being intransigemnt and several Ministers attacked him (Bidault) bitterly as an appeaser; but Bidault believes that he has achieved sonething: (One) Orders are to be sent to the French forces in the Levant to drop all provocative attitudes and to strive hard to avoid all clashes with the British. (Two) Instead of inviting the large numbor of powers that De Gaulle suggested yesterday, the proposed confer- ence would include only the five great powers. He let me read the telegram which is to 6° forward later this afternoon to the five capitals instructing his Ambassadors to suggest that a conference be held at Paris, (he remarked that while they suggested Paris as the seat of the conference ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE RECORDS AND