Editorial Note

Secretary Dulles visited Paris, April 13–14, and met with Foreign Minister Bidault and other French officials to discuss the situation in Indochina and matters related to the Geneva Conference. For documentation on their conversations, see volume XIII. The communiqué released on April 14 was issued as Department of State press release 197 of April 14 and was published in the Department of State Bulletin, April 26, 1954, page 622.