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396.1 WA/7–1353

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

secret
[Washington,] July 13, 1953.

Participants:

  • Lord Salisbury;1
  • Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador;
  • Secretary Dulles

Lord Salisbury and the British Ambassador called at my house Sunday evening2 at 9:30 p.m. I reported to them the substance of the bilateral talks which had taken place with the French that afternoon. [Page 668] Salisbury expressed the view that it would be impractical to include Indochina in the agenda of the Korean political conference, but that if the conference seemed to make it appropriate, a political talk about Indochina might grow out of the political conference with somewhat different membership. He indicated he believed that Thailand should be encouraged to seek from the UN the appointment of a peace observation commission. I expressed my agreement.

On Monday morning, July 13, Lord Salisbury advised me that he had had a private meeting with M. Bidault immediately prior to the above meeting which he had had with me.

  1. The Marquess of Salisbury, Acting Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.↩
  2. July 12.↩