163. Editorial Note

At 4:30 p.m. on May 15, Khrushchev, again accompanied by Gromyko, Vinogradov, and Malinovsky, paid a visit to Macmillan and reiterated the demands he had made in his conversation with De Gaulle during the morning (see Document 160), but did not leave a copy of the declaration with the Prime Minister. For McMillan’s account of this meeting, see Pointing the Way, pages 202–203. After Khrushchev left, the British briefed both French and U.S. officials on the conversation. No record of the British briefing has been found in Department of State files or at the Eisenhower Library.