Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of France Henri Bonnet, Robert Murphy, and John D. Hickerson

001406 COPY:mss 5/5 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation 1016 DATE: May 4, 1949 SUBJECT: & ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECOROS AND ONLY SERVICE* PARTICIPANTS: M e Bonnet, French Ambassador The Secretary of State. Mr. Robert Murphy, Director for German-Austrian Affairs Mr. John D. Hickerson, Director for European Affairs COPIES TO: U, , C, G, GA, UNA-Dr.Jessup,WE, EUR, Amembassy, Paris. 1-1493 The French Ambassador came in to see me at his request at 3:30 this afternoon He said that he had just returned from Paris and wished to have a brief general conversation with me. He opened the conversation by referring to the press reports about the lifting of the blockade. The Ambassador had not heard about the results of the conversations in New York this afternoon and I gave him the details of the agre ement under which the blockade is to be lifted on May 12 and a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers is to take place in Paris on May 23. I told the Ambassador that a formal communique would be issued at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. Ambassador Bonnet made a pleasant reference to my testimony last week before the Foreign Relations Committee and inquired about how the hearings are going generally I told him that the progress has been considerably more rapid than had originally been anticipated. In response to an inquiry from M. Bonnet, I told him that we hope that the Senate would approve the treaty some time during the month of June, perhaps around the middle of the month. The Ambassador said that the treaty will be laid on the table