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OCR Page 1 of 11MR. ROSS'S
PRESS AND RADIO CONFERENCE
AT 5.25 PM EST
DECEMBER 5, 1950
TUESDAY
MR. ROSS: Hello.
Q: Women and children first.
MR. ROSS: Well, I will tell you in advance, there will be
nothing to cause a mad rush from the room, so please wire services -
please relax.
I will give you this as succinctly as I can. I
don't know how much of it you will want.
The President went on board the WILLIAMSBURG at
12.50. The Prime Minister and his party came on board at One. The
two groups assembled in the after lounge of the yacht WILLIAMSBURG,
lying at her berth in the Navy Yard. They went into luncheon at
1.20. They arose from luncheon at 2.35. The Congressional members
of the party - --- you have all the names, I think of those who were at
the luncheon - then left the ship. They were, the Speaker of the
House, Senators Connally, Wiley and George, and Representatives Eaton
and Richards. They left and then there came on board right after
luncheon, in time for the meeting, on the American side: Ambassador
Philip C. Jessup, Mr. George Perkins, Assistant Secretary of State,
and Mr. Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State. On the British side
there came on board Lord Tedder, Mr. Kenneth Younger, Minister of
State, who is head of the United Kingdom delegation to the General
Assembly, also Mr. Robert Scott of the British Foreign Office, Mr.
Denis Rickett, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, and Sir Edwin
Plowden of the British Treasury. The conference began just a little
before three - make it 2.55, that is near enough, and it ended at
4.45, and the President then drove back to a Cabinet meeting here at
five. This is the regular Tuesday Cabinet meeting. The time was
moved from four to five because of the conference on the WILLIAMSBURG.
Now does anyone want the menu?
Q: Where was the conference held?
MR. ROSS: It was held in the President's dining room on
the main deck of the ship, around the long dining table. I can give
you the names of those who sat around the table. Do you wish them
in the order in which they sat?
Q: I don't, particularly.
Q: I would be interested in that. I am afraid the wire
services would.
MR. ROSS: Some sit around the table and some behind.
Q: Just where the President and the Prime Minister sat.
MR. ROSS: The President sat in the middle of one side of
the table, the long side, like this - (demonstrating). He had at
his right Secretary Acheson, and at his left Secretary Snyder. Do
you want the names of the others on that side? On Acheson's right
was Secretary Marshall and then to go down on the other side next to
Secretary Snyder was Ambassador-designate Gifford, and Mr. Harriman.
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