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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\n- 30 -\nproposition they make with a very suspicious eye.\"\nMr. Pleven replied that that might be true, but that if\nwe had refused to talk with the Russians the harm would have been\nvery great.\nHe wanted the President to understand that the Four Power\ntalk, no matter how it went, would have no effect on the French de-\ntermination to rearm. But he wanted to say again that a refusal to\nmeet with Russia would have had so great an adverse effect on the\nFrench people that he could not possibly think of refusing to meet\nwith the Russians.\nThe President looked at his watch, and told Mr. Pleven he\nwas aware that the Prime Minister had a speaking engagement at the\nPress Club at One O'clock. He thought that we would have to adjourn\nthis morning's meeting, but we would all be back together again at\nthree.\nMr. Pleven replied, \"Mr. President, I was not afraid of\nmeeting you, but I am very much afraid of meeting them (the American\npress).\"\nThe President laughingly replied that the Prime Minister had\nno reason to be afraid of the members of the National Press Club.\nThe meeting adjourned at 12:35 P.M.\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES &\nRECORDS\nREVENUE\nADMIN\nGOVERNMENT\nNotes dictated by George M. Elsey,\nFOR\nSLONE\nJanuary 31 and February 3, 1951."
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