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OCR Page 1 of 13DGA -- Reel I
There are one or two other episodes I think which throw
our
nom e light on the relationships betweon me and the Prosident before I
went into the State Dept. for the last time.
One of these has to do with the revival- Il think it was at the end
WLE Hours Sincer to Hi
of 45 or the beginning
of 46--01 the practice of diplomatic annorowns.
they
Those had been given up during the ware and it was thought by Stanley
Maughl
Woodward, who was then Chief of Protocol, that it would be a good idea
underlinon
to revive them. Accordingly a dinner was set up toward the end of 45
or SD metime in January, 46. Mr. Byrnes, was at that time in New York
think thore Wee a meeting of the UN or a conference Rox of foreign
ministers going on, and I was therefore acting in his place. We gave
>x inadequate attention to this, as we discovered later, and We found
To lude
that the diplomatic corps was so large that by the time you asked the
day mission
Chief of Mission and one or two senior officers of each one together
le Excelled VE cajacity of to the state Anna sour at Hi While
with their wives you had much too many people for one di nnon, H think
House.
that came to something like 200, or whatever it was So two dinners
were to be given, and Stanley decided that the best way to do this was
number
apphalities and invite the teld numbered
to go through the diplomatic list starting with A, and take every other
missions to
ones If
country for the first di/nner and then the even-numbered countries t he
semm
discrimination;
next time. In that way, there was no choice; and nobody would feel MIONAL
not
offended. This brought about a situation) which we were of at
It result in
Ambassador
the time byyxkringby having the/Mintsken of the Soviet Union
bein 1 muchil 5 the same dustrus which had been anneyed by the levich
Union but
togother with the Ministers of the Baltic countries. The alphabet
Which were
IA
played a very bad prank on everybody! Nobody realized this until
shill rico.
at about 5 o'clock, the dinner taking place at 7:30, the Soviet Ambassador Ws.
majes my
was
had his secretary call up and say that he was ill and/i in Now York and
could not cême to the dinner. Whothor anybody olse came or not,
I-don' t know, but that threw everything into confusion
Threating
nots
But first
and all the places had to be changed around. Some hours went by before
Relations
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