694.001/8–351
The Secretary of State to the French Foreign Minister (Schuman)1
In view of the crowded schedule of mtgs and conferences we all have ahead this autumn, I have been trying to work out plans for informal talks with you and Mr. Morrison on various of the important subjs on which we wish to make progress this fall. With this in mind, I shld be glad to have your views on the fol suggestion.
I hope that matters will develop so that you can be in San Francisco for the signing of the Jap Treaty.2 Mr. Morrison expects to be there and I am suggesting that he stay over Sunday in San Francisco and lunch with me quietly that day. If you cld be with us too, I shld be very pleased. In any event, it wld be extremely useful if, during the week before the Ottawa mtg of the NATO Council,3 we cld have several days in Wash, say beginning the 12th during which we cld talk together and with Mr. Morrison, not so much on NATO subjs which we will be discussing with all the member nations in Ottawa as on other matters which are of particular interest to the three of us. If this is agreeable to you we can exchange lists in advance of those subjs which any of us may wish to discuss. I hope to be able to send to you some time next week an indication of our views on some of these subjs. You may wish to defer your answer until you see this later msg.
- This message was transmitted to Paris in telegram 809, August 3, for delivery to Schuman. A similar message was sent through Embassy London to Foreign Secretary Morrison. The telegram was drafted by Parsons; cleared with Acheson, Jessup, Cabot, Spofford, Matthews, Perkins, Byroade, and Ferguson; and signed by Acheson.↩
- For documentation on the San Francisco conference for the signing of a peace treaty with Japan, see vol. vi, Part 1, pp. 777 ff.↩
- For documentation on the seventh session of the NATO Council at Ottawa, September 15–20, see pp. 616 ff.↩