State Department Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State George Marshall, Ambassador of Great Britain Oliver Franks, and Charles Bohlen
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BECKET
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O. a Sec. 3(E) and 7-15-11 S(D) or (E)
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Dep. of State letter,
Bz NLT- HC , NARS Dato 11.24.25
Memorandum of Conversation
DATE: September 11, 1948
SUBJECT
Berlin Situation
ARCHIVER AND A
"NATIONAL
of
PARTICIPANTS:
Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador;
Secretary of State George C. Marshall;
and Mr. Charles E. Bohlen, Gounselor, Department of State.
COPIES TO:
sem
epo
-1493
The British Ambassador called on me this morning at
12:15 p.m. to give me the instructions he had received
from Mr. Bevin, an advance copy of which he had already
given to Mr. Bohlen.
The Ambassador said that he had nothing to add to
what was in Mr. Bevin's message since he knew from his
talks with Mr. Lovett and Mr. Bohlen that we were fully
familiar with Mr. Bevin's view on this subject. He said,
however, in thinking it over he thought he might be able
to make somewhat plainer the thoughts that lay behind
Mr. Bevin's position.
He felt Mr. Bevin fully agreed with our interpreta-
tion of the Soviet actions in Berlin but was doubtful
whether the public saw their significance as clearly as
we did and that it would be rather difficult to prove
Soviet inspiration. In such circumstances the issue
would become one of charge and countercharge and might
serve to blur what Mr. Bevin obviously felt was the main
issue, that is, Soviet bad faith in the negotiations, and
that for this reason it would be a mistake to introduce
this new element into the Moscow discussions.
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Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949
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