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OCR Page 1 of 1512/13/53 Reel 6, Track 1, Page 1
MR. FEIS:
the statement the four ministries are agreed, that the cummuniqué
merely expressed the agreement of the four ministers and it changed the
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nature of such obligation a.s would be contained in the joint communiqué.
It doesn't say the four governments, just the four ministers. I wondered
whether that was deliberate language or not?
MR. ACHESON:
Well, I think we were quite careful in all of these communiques to
we
use this phrase--the four ministers. As I recall it,/were quite careful
not to say the word" governments". We were quite aware that there were
other people around who might change things later on.
MR. HARRIMAN:
Well, that went through every communiqué. [confused]. It WB. S done in
war time when Roosevelt, Chunchill and Stalin--it was the three heads of
government that figured through this, because obviously the President
couldn't take any commitments without some action on the part of
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Congress. That was standard practice.
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MR. JESSUP:
Same as he did at Bermuda the other day.
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MR. HARRIMAN:
I didn't know Bermuda said anything. It said they met; found themselves
MR. JESSUP
in full agreement
They found themselves in full agreement in
the principle points in which they had directed their efforts in the
at
retainment of peace.
MR. ACHESON:
While we were in Paris, another very important series of conversations
went on with the French, on which the financial field. And here again
the jinks which always seemed to follow American attempts to work
anything out with the French was in full operation. The French cabled
us and said that their troubles, which Averell knew about during, by
reason of his committee's work, involved these two questions: that they
were going to have American aid in the extent of six hundred million
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