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Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Reel 8, Track 1
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MR. BUNDY:
I asked, when the roel was off, whether there vas any direct
coordination- between you and General Eisenhower in this effort that
he was moking in early 1952 to get the EDC going and, in general,
when he was in command, that was the relationship between
the Department of State and General Eisenhover.
MR. ACHUSON:
The link between the General and the State Department ves through
Douglas NacArthur II, whom we had originally assigned to travel with
General Eisenhower, I think on his first preliminary trip to Europe
and this had turned out to be a great success. General Eisenhower
liked liacArthur very much. He is and was a strictly able, tactful (3)
intelligent
fellow; he had our complete confidence in Washington so that communication
between MaçArthur and us was enough to inform each other what general
plans were in mind and since we were absolutely united on the question
of policy, there was no attempt made on either side to control the
the other but to play it the best way it seemed to the player to be
required at a given moment.
MR. JOHDISON:
May I just underline again the thing that you said earlier. This
reveals once more the importance of personalities in this whole thing.
in
the
It seens to me that/this record, and the record of two months ago, the
that
is
things comes out most clearly to me mhe the significance of personali-
lies in the whole business of development of European (confusion)
MR. ACHESON:
I think the importent thing to point out about these discussions in
Boun and Paris is that as Schuman on his side and Adenauer on his
came closer to finalization of the EDC arrangements, parliamentary
excitement grem in the two countries and there were efforts made by
each parliament to attach conditions or qualifications of desiderata
to the negotiator who would represent their country so thot he would
be forced, so far as the parliament was concerned, to a chieve certain
results which the parlianent was interested in. Some of thege were
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