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REEL 2 eu 7/22/53 - Page 1. (KR) Mr. Bundy: As you look back on it that Moscow may not have been as ready to agree on the Austrian Treaty as Vishinsky and the ex: post facto. VOICE: I get the impression thet Moscow was perfectly prepared to have an Austrian Treaty. Mr. Bundy: As of June, 1949. VOICE: As of the time of the se meetings. vive VOICE: I think we were not on the air whe n you said that reconstrusting the ote excursion with Vishinsky after the dinner at the Russian Embassywe a point that we discussed last time, that being on June llth-the discussion must have been the preliminery suggestion and the paokage deal on the modus vivendi. , ARCHIVES& "NATIONAL RECORDS for ADMIN F FOODERANA VOICE: Yes. Mr. Acheson: One other thing that I wantod to mention is that when we came back from this moeting in Paris, at the press conference of June 23, 1949, I made quite & long, extemporaneous statement to the press about my general impressions of the conf erence=what ha d hap pened and what had not happened- and then drew some canc lusions from it, which beared a little on Mac Bundy's questi ons as to whether these ob servati ons that we have made