No. 122
Editorial Note
Following the meeting with Chancellor Adenauer (see telegrams 17 and 18, Document 120 and supra) and the receipt of his recommended changes in the draft reply, a tripartite drafting group, consisting of Jessup, Rumbold, Seydoux, and La Tournelle, began meeting in Paris to consider what revisions could be made in the draft (Document 118) to meet the Chancellor’s desiderata. In meetings July 3–7, the members of this group revised the draft, prepared a letter to Adenauer explaining the revisions and giving interpretations of parts of the draft which he had questioned, obtained their respective governments’ approval of the new text and the letter, and transmitted both documents to the Allied High Commission for Germany for delivery to the Chancellor. Adenauer raised no objections to the new draft which was then transmitted to the three Western Embassies in Moscow for delivery to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Documentation on these developments, including reports on the meetings of the drafting group and the text of the letter to Adenauer, is in file 662A.00/7–352 through 7–1052. [Page 287] For text of the note as delivered to the Soviet Foreign Ministry on July 10, see Document 124.
The note was also discussed at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council on July 9; for a report on this discussion, see Polto 40 from Paris, July 9, volume V, Part 1, page 309.