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Transcript of Princeton Seminar Discussion, Reel 8, Track 2
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OCR Page 1 of 5'12/13/53, Reel 8, track 2, page 1.
MR. ACHESON:
and therefore I must make it perfectly clear that, although I had
was
had no chance to communicate with the Government I knew that I spoke ing
for the U.S. Government and the President, saying this could not be
to it
made and I objected, very S trongly. Then we took Mr. Churchill's
speech, and we struck out large paragraphs and parts of it, and wrote
with
in red pencil and other pencils, some things which made it quite a
good speech, but not that speech. I then got my secretary, Barbara Evans,
alerted and out of bed and down to the "mbassy, and had to get the Marine
Guards awakened, and open the place up and have this letter typed out,
which was written in Luke's longhand and pretty indecipherable, and this
was typed and the speech with the changes in it was photostated. Then
this was brought back to me. I gave the letter to Mr. Churchill to Luke
Battle, and told him to be at a. quarter of nine on the steps of 10 Downing
fromot
Street and to stay there until he got Churchill's private secretary, whose
name I've now forgotten, and to give it to him and tell him to
take it at once to Mr. Churchill. I then put the original of Mr. Churchill's
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speech, marked up, in my pocket and went off to a meeting of the four
ministers in the Foreign Office and waited for the explosion, which was
us
not long in coming. We'd only been going a few minutes when I received
a telephone message that the Prime Minister wished to see me right away.
I told him that I couldn't see him right away because I was in this meeting
with the four ministers. Then I was to come immediately after that. I
said I couldn't come after that because the wieen had sent for me, and I
had to go and do that. Could I come after that? I said I couldn't come
after that, becuase I had a lunch with Adenauer. After that? I said
then I was taking the plane. He said, "Goddam it, I've got to see you. "
I arranged with Adenauer that we would give up this lunch, that Walter
could entertain him, but that I had to go and see the old man.
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