Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Oliver Franks, and George Perkins
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Memorandum of Conversation
DATE: July 13, 1950
183
SUBJECT:
Secretary's Message to Bevin
PARTICIPANTS:
Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador;
Secretary of State Acheson;
and Mr. George W. Perkins, Assistant Secretary.
COPIES TO:
G - Mr. Matthews
s/a - Mr. Jessup
s/P - Mr. Nitze
s/s
FE - Mr. Rusk
EE - Mr. Yost
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Sir Oliver stated that Mr. Bevin had received my
message through Lew Douglas and was appreciative of the
full and frank exposition of our views. He said they
will study the message and will reply later. In connec-
tion with this Sir Oliver stated that apparently Mr. Bevin
had been disturbed about the phrase "serious consequences"
which Ambassador Douglas had used in the supplementary
presentation of my message. I assured Sir Oliver that
what we intended to convey was that we regarded most
seriously the possibilities of our policies drifting apart,
and that there was no other meaning intended. Sir Oliver
said he was sure of this, but that he wanted to reassure
Mr. Bevin who was apparently disturbed.
Sir Oliver handed me a copy of the message from
Sir David Kelly to Mr. Bevin reporting on his conversation
of July 11 with Mr. Gromyko (copy attached).
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