Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Prime Minister of Sweden Tage Erlander, Ambassador of Sweden Erik Boheman, George Perkins, and Andreas G. Ronhovde

S/S 493 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 4831 Memorandum of Conversation 13 to on DATE: April 14, 1952 SUBJECT: Swedish Prime Minister's call PARTICIPANTS: His Excellency Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden The Honorable Erik Boheman, Ambassador of Sweden to the U.S. The Secretary Mr. George Perkins, EUR Mr. A. G. Ronhovde, BNA S/S COPIES TO: U G EUR - Mr. Perkins GER - Mr. Lewis UNA - Mr. Hickerson WE - Mr. Byington BNA - Mr. Raynor American Embassy, Stockholm u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 The Prime Minister, accompanied by Ambassador Boheman, paid a courtesy call at 11:00 a.m. He expressed his gratitude for the assistance the Department had given him on his visit and said the trip had been very valuable, more so than he had thought a short trip could be. After the exchange of courtesies the Ambassador asked me whether I thought the prospects for a truce in Korea now looked any brighter. In reply I outlined the three major problems remaining to be settled and explained why we thought each was important. I told him that we also understood some of the difficulties of the Communist negotiators in view of the ideological and other limitations under which they were operating. I then asked the Prime Minister how he viewed the : present European situation. He responded that in his view the most important recent development was the progress being made on the Schuman Plan. He explained this view on the basis that he thought it a prime essential DECLASSIFIED for the/ STATE DEPT. LTR. 5.5.f3 SECRET Project NLT 82-4 By NLT- HC NARS, Date 6-15-23