Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Norway Halvard Lange, and Others
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E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (B)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
NATIONAL
NARS Date 3-76
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
By NLT-
He
SERVICE
Memorandum of Conversation
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DATE: February 11, 1949
SUBJECT:
Final Visit of Norwegian Foreign Minister
Mr. Halvard M. Lange, Foreign Minister of Norway
PARTICIPANTS:Wilhe Munthe de Morgenstierne, Ambassador of Norway
Mr. Torp, Leader of the Norwegian Labor Party in Parliament
Mr. Arne Gunneng, Norwegian Foreign Office
Mr. Sivert Nielsen, Second Secretary, Norwegian Embassy
Mr. Dag Bryn, Norwegian Defense Under Secretary
The Secretary
COPIES TO:
Charles E. Bohlen, Counselor
John D. Hickerson, Director for European Affairs
Ernest Gross
Benjamin M. Hulley, Chief, NOE
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(The meeting came to order at 2:35 p.m.)
MR. ACHESON: Perhaps you would like me to say a
few things first, Mr. Minister.
Mr. LANGE: Yes.
MR. ACHESON: We have been giving very careful
thought to what you told us in your conversation with me
and the conversations that you had with the other
officers in the Department. Being a lawyer, I have
resorted to the techniques with which a wyers are
familiar, of having argument before me, of getting
various people to present various views very strongly,
SO far as the limits of my mind. I can't think of things
unless somebody argues. I think we have considered all
the matters that you brought before us carefully and
sympathetically. I came to some conclusions myself and I
have talked those over fully with the President, so that
what I say I know reflects his views. We understand the
importance of this meeting and of the importance to you
of getting as clear a statement of our views as we can
give. Now the first thing that I should like to stress
is that if it should seem to the Norwegian Government
in its interest to join at any time, either during these
discussions or at the end of the discussions, after the
treaty has been signed, after it has been ratified--
if
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