379. Editorial Note
November 16, 1955
On November 16, the final day of the Conference, Secretary Dulles met at 8:45 a.m. with his senior staff to discuss the schedule of meetings. At 10, the quadripartite drafting group began its work in the Small Conference Room at the Palais des Nations. At 10:30, the three Western Foreign Ministers assembled in Secretary Dulles’ office at the Palais de Nations to draft public statements on Germany and disarmament. Following this meeting, Dulles and his senior staff reconvened before attending the sixteenth meeting of the four Foreign Ministers from 11:30 to 11:55. At 3 p.m., they reassembled for the seventeenth and final meeting of the Conference. The final session ended at 6:35. Secretary Dulles then held a press conference at the Hotel du Rhone before departing from Geneva for Washington at 9:30. (Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627, CF 587, Chron–25)
Records of the tripartite and quadripartite Foreign Ministers meeting follow. A verbatim transcript of the press conference is ibid. [Page 800] No record of the two staff meetings has been found in Department of State files.