201. Editorial Note
At 9:15 a.m. the Tripartite Coordinating (Working) Group held its second meeting with MacArthur, Merchant, Bowie, and Phleger attending for the United States. At 9:30 a.m. Ambassadors Bohlen and Thompson briefed Harold Stassen and Nelson Rockefeller, who had arrived at 9 a.m. from Paris, on the progress of the conference. At 10 a.m. Secretary Dulles joined MacArthur, Merchant, Bowie, Phleger, Bohlen, Thompson, and McCardle for a staff meeting, following which they, without the two Ambassadors, went to the Palais des Nations for a meeting with their British and French counterparts at 10:30 a.m. Meanwhile Stassen and Rockefeller drove to President Eisenhower’s villa for a second briefing which lasted from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. With the exception of the briefing at 10:30 a.m., no records for any of these meetings have been found in Department of State files, although all appear as entries in the United States Delegation order of the day, USDEL OD–4, July 20. (Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123, CF 520) With regard to the 10:30 a.m. briefing, Colonel Goodpaster noted the following:
“He [President Eisenhower] discussed with Governor Stassen and Mr. Rockefeller the development of the conference up to this time, commenting particularly upon Soviet attitudes and upon the make-up of their delegation and relationships within it.” (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Goodpaster, Random Notes—Geneva Trip)