Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Ambassador of Ceylon

RESTRICTED 57 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 593 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: March 1, 1949. SUBJECT: Courtesy Call by Ambassador of Ceylon PARTICIPANTS: Secretary Ambassador of Ceylon COPIES TO: 1-1493 His Excelleney G. c. s. Gorea, Ambassador of deylon, ealled at 3:30 today to pay his respects. The Ambassador explained that, owing to his absence from Washington on official business in London, he was unable to attend the reception for the Diplomatic Corps at Blair House on January 24. I asked whether this was not Mrs. Corea's first visit to Washington, to which the Ambassador replied affirma- tively. I then introduced the subject of our mutual interests in the legal profession and in public service. In anawer to the Ambasssdor's question as to whether I had ever visited in Ceylon or India, I observed that prior to my appointment as Secretary I had contemplated making a trip to that part of the world on behalf of some of my cliente who had intereste there but that my appoint- ment had forestalled this possibility. The Ambassador replied that although 1 now have only one client, the in- tereste of that one client in the area might justify such a trip. In answer to sone other questions put by the Ambassador, I made a few general comments on the manner in which a case DECLASSIFIED who ity E.O. 10501