25. Editorial Note
Foreign Minister Christian Pineau was invited by Secretary Dulles on March 30 to pay an official visit to the United States, June 18–20. Details of the proposal for the invitation and preliminary preparations for the visit are in Department of State, Central File 033.5111. On June 12, Secretary Dulles approved an agenda for the Pineau meetings which included the following topics: East-West relations, NATO, EURATOM and the Common Market, North Africa, Middle East, Indochina, and French-U.S. trade. Briefing papers were prepared by bureaus of the Department of State. (Ibid., Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 712)
Pineau arrived in Washington on Saturday, June 16, and spent that day and the next day with his son. His official visit began on Monday, June 18, when he had discussions with Secretary Dulles in the morning and was guest of honor at a dinner at the Secretary’s home in the evening. On Tuesday, June 19, Pineau was guest of honor at a luncheon given by the Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Pineau and Dulles concluded the substantive part of their talks that afternoon. The memorandum of their conversations is printed infra. On June 20, Pineau and Dulles met again in the morning and in the evening Pineau hosted a dinner in Dulles’ honor.