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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of the Netherlands S. Herman van Roijen, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Dirk Stikker, J. G. de Beus, George Perkins, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands Selden Chapin, and Joseph W. Scott
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Memorandum of Conversation
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DATE: April 3, 1952
SUBJECT: Discussion of Items of General Interest to the Dutch
PARTICIPANTS: The Secretary D.A. (FEND
Assistant Secretary George W. Perkins
Ambassador Selden Chapin
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Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Dirk U. Stikker
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Ambassador Jo H. van Roijen of the Netherlands
Jo G. de Beus of the Netherlands Embassy
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Arter an exchange of greetings, I asked Mr. Stikker to take informal
charge of the meeting and to raise items for discussion in whatever order
was most convenient
Mr. Stikker said that Ambassador Chapin had some time ago asked him
what he would like to discuss during his visit here and that he had given
the Ambassador a list of eight items, some of which were more important than
others from the strictly Dutch point of viewo
UNCURK
Mr. Stikker said that in response to requests from the British, the
Australians and ourselves, he had appointed a new Dutch representative on
UNCURK, Baron Van Ittersum, until now head of the Far Eastern Department of
the Foreign Office. He said that Van Ittersum had had a lot of Far Eastern
experience and was considered by the Dutch to be a top flight mano He
added,
however, that his people did not see how, under present circumstances, UNCURK
could be expected to do very useful or important work. He asked what we had
in mind for UNCURK to do in the future.
I said that we wanted to S trengthen the Commission and to keep it in
Korea to deal with a number of problems there which the Korean Government
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