Editorial Note
Secretary of State Dulles departed from Washington on the evening of April 20 for Paris to meet with British and French officials regarding Indochina and the impending Geneva Conference. The Secretary also participated in a one-day meeting of the North Atlantic Council on April 23. He departed Paris for Geneva on the evening of April 24 at 9:20 p.m. (Paris time).
Before the Secretary’s departure from Washington, he issued a statement regarding the Geneva Conference (Department of State press release 207, April 20); for text, see the Department of State Bulletin, May 3, 1954, page 669.