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    "ocrText": "7/16/53 - 45\nposition, which was an agreed one. I don't remember much about that discussion. Maybe\nPhil 02° Paul The only thing I recall is that there was some talk about how we\nwere going to handle the press, and Bevin was rather in favor of complete secrecy so\nfar as the press was concerned, telling them nothing. We insisted, and the French agreed\nwith us, that in the first place that was totally unworkable and it was theoretical--it\nwouldn't happen whatever we said. Secondly, we thought it was a bad thing to do and it\nwould not affect any chances of success of the meeting because Vishinsky was going to\nbe entirely governed by instructions from Moscow, and what was said in the press would\npolicy\nreally not affect what the Russian was. All we would do would be\nto\nantagenize the press, keep our oun people in doubt and insecurity as to what was going\non, and leave any propaganda advantage to the other side. And after thrashing that out\nfor quite anhile, the agreement, as I recall it, was that the ordinary meetings would\nbe regarded as open meetings. They weren't open in the sense that anyone could come,\nand\nnobody coud, no press could come,/ a very limited number of people; but they were open\nin the sense that after the meetings each delegation would brief its own press on\nhad\nwhat/occurred. Then, by unanimous consent, there could be what was called secret\nmeetings, or closed meetings; and after those there would be no briefing. That was\nthe view on thich we agreed and when the C.F.M. opened we put it up to Vishinsky and\nafter some argument about it, he agreed.\nQ. I think that had already been adopted at a previous, or one or more previous,\nevents. I remember Jim felt that was the best system and it worked before.\nDA. Do you remember any particular issues we had with the two in these preliminary\nmeetings?\nQ. I remember when I arrived Phil and Chip had worked up a rather short, consoli-\ndated paper on behalf of the\n?\nNumbered paragraphs\nQ. Nuibered paragraphs on behalf of the three delegations, and it seems to me we\nwere pretty well agreed this wasn't a difficult problem.\n? I can't remember any specific issues that were held over from the I think we"
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