Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Denmark Gustav Rasmussen, and Others

miller Copy 4 of 12 DEPARTMENT OF STATE < 99 51. ARGHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND Memorandum of Conversation 81 ser DATE: March 15, 1949 SUBJECT: North Atlantie Pact Discussions. Restructed PARTICIPANTS: Mr. Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Foreign Minister lr. Henrik de Kauffnann, Danish Ambassador Mr. Frante livass, Danish Foreign Office Mr. Povl Bang-Jensen, Danish Counselor The Secretary Nr. Charles E. Bohlen, Counselor Mr. Ernest A. Gross, Assistant Secretary Mr. John D. Hickerson, Director, EUR Nr. Benjamin M. Hulley, Chief, NOE COPIES TO: s/s, c, H, EUR, WE, NME, NOE Embassy, Copenhagen 1-1493 NR. RASKUSSEN: Mr. Secretary, first of all, I would like to thank you very much for the information you gave ne the other day and I think it has contributed very substantially to the clarification of our minds, and that it will enable me to give orientation and clarification when I get back to Denmark. Then, I would also like to express my thanks for the detailed, free and open discussions which we have had with your advisere and officials. These discussione vill further enable us to inform the Danish Government fully and give them, I think, all the necessary orientation. As a matter of fact, after these rather lengthy discussione which we have had since I saw you last, I think there are only a very few questions left and, with your permission, I should like to reise them. MR. ACHESON: Please do. MR. RASMUSSEN: First, about Greenland. There, of course, the Atlentie Pact will throw a new light on the American-Danish relations as to Greenland. But nevertheless we still have our bilateral agreement from 1941 and the question is left open what to do about it, whether we should seek to terminate it or whether we should seek to make a new arrangement within the framework of the proposed Atlantic Pact. DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or 3 I take Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 7-23-75 Ba NLT- He NARS Data 4-20-76 201