Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Dr. J. W. Beyen, Ambassador of the Netherlands S. Herman van Roijen, Homer Byington, and R. D. McClelland

S RHOTRI CTED SECURITY INFORMATION 1232 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 1003 287 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: September 23, 1952 SUBJECT: Visit of New Netherlands Foreign Minister, Dr. Beyen PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Jo W. Beyen, Netherlands Foreign Minister Dr. J. H. van Roijen, Netherlands Ambassador ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE'* RECORDS AND The Secretary WE - Mr. Byington WE - Mr. McClelland COPIES TO: S EUR E (cp) GER RA Amembassy, The Hague u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 After the opening amenities, I said that I would like to share with the Minister and the Ambassador some good news I had just received. The Department of Agricult had agreed to a considerable increase in he import quota for Dutch cheese, raising it from 3 to 4.6 million pounds a year. It had also been decided not to impose restrictions on whole dried milk imports from the Netherlands. Ambassador van Roijen reacted somewhat wryly and remarked that although an increase in the quota was, of course, welcome news, the fact that their cheese imports were still under quota at all discouraged the Dutch. Dr. Beyen confirmed that U.S. restrictionist action in this field had had a very bad psychologica effect in the Netherlandse The Ambassador added, however, that the State Department had been always very helpful to them in this matter and that they were sincerely grateful. Dr. Beyen asked about our feeling regarding the recent Mexico City Bank Fund Meeting, and I replied that John Snyder was in general very pleased with the results. The South Africans had caused some excitement, and Percy Spender (the Australian Ambassador to Washington) had got into the act this year in his usual energetic fashion. Beyen observed laughingly t hat Mr. Spender could always be counted on to provide some fireworks. Dr. Beyen said that he had often had occasion to be grateful to me for the International Bank articles which had been expeditiously drafted in the short two weeks of the Bretton Woods Conference and hence were much more workable and less refractory than the articles of the Fund which were the intensive product of the clash of ideas between Harry White and Lord Keynes. After a REDTRICTED SECURITY INFORMATION