Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of France Henri Bonnet, Mr. de Juniac, Ambassador Philip Jessup, and Harold F. Linder

JLUNET SECURITY INFORMATION 507 5812 s/s DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation DATE: June 12, 1952 SUBJECT: 192 coof PARTICIPANTS: United States - The Secretary Ambassador Jessup Mr. Linder France - Ambassador Bonnet Mr. de Juniac COPIES TO: S - The Secretary U - Under Secretary G - Mr. Matthews EUR - Mr. Perkins GER - Mr. Laukhuff s/P - Mr. Nitze EE - Mr. Barbour C - Mr. Bohlen 1-1493 Ambassador Bonnet came in at the Secretary's request. The Secretary said that he wished first to discuss with him the question of the pr eparation of a reply to the Soviet note. He expressed the earnest hope that the French Govern- ment could take steps to stop any official communications to the press concerning the points which come up in the tripartite discussions. He referred to the statements which had appeared from Paris and London. He told the Ambassador that the Department was saying nothing on this subject and remarked that he had cancelled his press conference this week thus avoiding any q testioning on the matter. He hoped that the Ambassador wo uld impress upon Mr. Schuman his hope that there would be no more speculation about differences of opinion since we could not forever refuse to talk if officially inspired stories continued to come out in Paris. He hoped in any case it would not be long before any dif- ferences of opinion vanished. The Secretary said the next point to consider was what we should do. He proposed that we should start tomorrow in Washington a series of meetings with Ambassador Bonnet and Ambassador Franks to coordinate the drafting of the note as contemplated in the tripartite agreement reached in Paris on May 27. Since Ambassador Bonnet had stated that he would be away for a few days the Secretary hoped that he could send someone in his place and that later he and Sir Oliver Franks and the Secretary could continue the work. He felt that if we could terminate the present exchange of cables and get down to the text that we could make progress. On the DECLASSIFIED B. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 10-27-76 S(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, By NLT- He , NARS Date 11-24-76 SEGRET SECURITY INFORMATION