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attends Mexico City meeting of American foreign ministers, he cannot
also be present at Big-3 meeting. Undoubtedly his prestige and State
Depart.'s would be enhanced if Stettinius should go with President
to Big-3 meeting
However, it is good practice for President
to keep State Secretary in constant touch with formulation of policy.
Example of this good practice would be Stettinius' presence at the
Big-3 meeting."
3 Ante, p. -
4
Points appear in the original.
Senator Brewster made a speech in Congress suggesting the Presi-
dent was "passing over Mr. Stettinius" in not taking me to the
Big-3 meeting. This was brought up in the meeting of my Staff
Committee while I was out of town and the Committee felt "secrecy on
this point was undesirable and unnecessary" and an announcement
should be made to the effect that I was going. The Committee
suggested I take the matter up with the President. I discussed with
him a number of secret items involving the conference, on the morning
of Thursday, the eighteenth, and next morning I checked with the
President's Secretary, Mr. Early, about my making a statement to
the press on my trip abroad. Early said that he had just cleared this
with the President for the second time and urged me to make the
announcement as soon as possible. I told Early exactly what I
was going to say and he approved. At noon that day in answer to
questions I revealed that the President had invited me several weeks
before to accompany him on his forthcoming trip. And I added that
this would not conflict with the meeting at Mexico City, that I
would attend that conference also.
Details and plans for the big trip were discussed on the eighteenth
with Major Tyson and Major Richmond-who would respectively
be my aide and pilot-together with Alger Hiss of the Department.
I instructed Major Tyson to report to Colonel McCarthy for briefing.
Later that day I had a visit from the French Ambassador and Mr.
René Mayer, French Minister for Transportation and Public Works,
who told me of their anxiety that General de Gaulle should attend
the Big-3 meeting. Without giving them much encouragement,
I
advised them that the whole question was receiving our very careful
consideration. The British also required a little handling. Lord
Halifax had requested that we give him certain preparatory informa-
tion for relaying to London, but after consultation within the Depart-
ment I telephoned Lord Halifax that Mr. Hopkins would have
private talks in London on his arrival. Lord Halifax thought this
was a very satisfactory answer. The British also appeared likely to
press a proposal that Russia be informed of the urgency of the Iranian
proposals in advance of the Big-3 Conference, but our position was
that this would lend the Iranian situation undue importance.
5 See ante, p. -
At 3:30 on Tuesday the 23rd I held a small off-the-record meeting
of the members of the party in final preparation for our departure.
A hopeful sign for international cooperation appeared in a successful
draft proposing a Four-Power Committee to supervise "the return of
democratic government" in liberated and satellite states, to be called
the Emergency High Commission for Europe. I expected to take up
See ante, p. -
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