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REEL 2 - 7/22/53 - Page 1. (KR) Mr. Bundy: As you look back on it that Moscow may not have been as ready to agree on the Austrian Treaty as Vishinsky and the ex post facto. VOICE: I get t he impression that Moscow was perfectly prepared to have an Austrian Treaty. Mr. Bundy: As of June, 1949. VOICE: As of the time of the se me etings. VOICE: I think we were not on the air whe n you said that reconstructing the obe excursion with Vishinsky after the dinner at the Russian Embassy-- a point that we discussed last time, that being on June llth-mthe discussion must have been the preliminary suggestion and the package TRUMAN deal on the modus vivendi. G -NATIONAL ARCHIVES ADMIN & RECORDS VOICE: Yes. 4.5 CONTINUED Mr. Acheson: One other thing that I wanted to mention is that when we came back from this meeting in Paris, at the press conference of June 23, 1949, I made quite a long, extemporaneous statement to the press about my general impressions of the conforence=what had hap pened and what had not happened-- and then drew some conc lusions from it, whic h beared a little on Mac Bundy's questi ons as to whether these ob servati ons that we have made