July 18, 1955
182. Delegation Record of the First Plenary Session of the Geneva Conference, July 18, 1955, 10 a.m.
Source: Merchant, Recollections, pp. 26–29.
183. Memorandum of a Conversation, Geneva, July 18, 1955, 1 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–1855. Secret.
184. Delegation Record of the Second Plenary Session of the Geneva Conference, July 18, 1955, 2:45–5:21 p.m.
Source: Merchant, Recollections, pp. 29–32. The U.S. Delegation verbatim minutes, USDEL/Verb/2, and the records of decision, CF/DOC/RD/2, for the second plenary are in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 510.
185. Memorandum of an Afternoon Meeting, Geneva, July 18, 1955
Source: Department of State, Conference Files, 396.1–GE/7–1855. Secret. Drafted by Bohlen.
187. Memorandum for the Record of the President’s Dinner, President’s Villa, Geneva, July 18, 1955, 8 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–1855. Confidential. Drafted by Thompson and Merchant on July 19. For three other reports on this dinner, see infra and Documents 191 and 192. For President Eisenhower’s and Merchant’s accounts, see Mandate for Change, pp. 517–518, and Recollections, pp. 32–33. John Eisenhower recorded his impressions of the dinner on pp. 13–19 of his diary. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File) At the same time that this dinner was taking place Colonel Robert Schulz, Army Aide to the President, gave a buffet supper for four of the Soviet security personnel. A brief memorandum of that conversation is in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 515.
188. Memorandum of Conversations at the President’s Dinner, President’s Villa, Geneva, July 18, 1955, 8–10 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–2355. Top Secret. Drafted by Bohlen on July 23. For three other accounts of the dinner conversations, see supra, infra, and Document 190.
189. Memorandum of the Conversation at the President’s Dinner, President’s Villa, Geneva, July 18, 1955, 8:30 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–2355. Top Secret. Drafted by Bohlen on July 23. For three other accounts of the dinner conversations, see Document 187, Supra, and infra.
190. Memorandum of the Conversation at the President’s Dinner, President’s Villa, Geneva, July 18, 1955, 8 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/7–1855. Top Secret. Drafted by Bohlen. For three other accounts of the conversations, see Documents 187 and 188 and supra.