Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill, Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Oliver Franks, Anthony Eden, Lord Frederick Cherwell, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, and General Omar Bradley

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TAD SECRE 96 DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY #1 January 7, 1952 MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION AT DINNER AT BRITISH EMBASSY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1952 Present at Dinner Mr. Churchill Secretary Acheson British Ambassador Secretary Lovett Mr. Bden General Bradley Lord Chervell Last evening Secretary Lovett, General Bradley, and I dined with Mr. Churchill, Mr. Eden, Lord Chervell, and the British Ambassador at the British Embassy. After dinner ve had discussion around the table from shortly after nine until shortly after one. Mr. Churchill started the discussion by saying that he wished to talk about three natters: Far East, Middle East, and the atomic bomb. The Far East: He said that he had been much disturbed by the President's statement to him the day before that British shipping had been carrying very considerable cargo, including strategic material, to Chinese ports. He asked on an urgent basis thet I fur- nish him with the memorandum to which the President had referred, saying that he would telephone or cable the information to London, and, if the facts supported what had been said, he would see that it was stopped immedi- ately. He said that his Governzent, which had been in office only nine weeks, had no responsibility in this matter, but that it would immediately assume responsibility. Mr. Lovett said that he was working with me on the matter, and that we vould furnish a memorandum very shortly. Mr. Lovett thought that the information should be drawn together by the intelligence services so that it might be directed more to what was going on DECLASSIFIED TAD E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and :5(D) or ARD PRONET wcr 77.32 Dept. of State letter SEGURITL to and By NLT-' 77.36 NARS Date