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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Armour)
| Participants: | The Belgian Ambassador1 |
| Mr. Armour |
Using the opportunity of a courtesy call on his return from Brussels, the Ambassador expressed the hope that this Government would publicly indicate its approval when the five power treaty was made public on March 17. He said he had personally recommended that the five governments jointly communicate the text to us before it was made public, as an indication of their interest in our reaction, but naturally with no request for any action by us. He did not know whether this suggestion would be followed. He nevertheless thought that unless we indicated some favorable reaction to the treaty as soon as it was made public, the participating governments and people would be greatly disappointed.
I told him that we had just this morning received the full text from the Belgian Government, that we were very much pleased with the agreement reached and that we were urgently studying what we could do to be helpful. I said I assumed we would indicate a favorable reaction when the treaty was made public.
- Baron Silvercruys.↩