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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
207
106
Memorandum of Conversation
conf
DATE:
April 1, 1949
SUBJECT:
Mr. Joseph Bech, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg.
PARTICIPANTS:
The Secretary of State
Mr. Bech
Mr. Le Gallais, Minister of Luxembourg
EUR -- Mr. Hickerson
WE -- Mr. Galloway
THERE
COPIES TO:
U
RECORDS
of
C
H
G
s/P
EUR
GA
1-1493
Mr. Joseph Bech, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg,
called today. He said that he wished to report the fact
that the Chief of the Polish Military Mission in Berlin
had, some time ago, called on the Luxembourg representa-
tive in Berlin and suggested that the Soviet Government
in reality wished to conduct conversations with the
United States, Great Britain, and France with a view
toward reconciling differences existing between the
Soviet Union and the Western powers. Mr. Bech was con-
vinced that this was an approach by the Soviet Government
through the Poles for a rapprochement with the West. He
had heard that the same approach had been made to repre-
sentatives in Berlin of Denmark, the Netherlands, and
Belgium. The substance of the Poles' comments had been
outlined briefly to the other governments, but the Polish
representative had spent an hour-and-a-half with the
Luxembourg representative.
The Luxembourg representative had stated that in his
opinion such conversations would not be feasible until
the Soviet Union had made known the concessions it was
willing
o
DECLASSIFIED
E: O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (B)
Dept. of State letter, Aug.2.1973
7-33-33
Bx NLT- He NARS Date 4-21-76
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