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751G.00/5–954: Telegram

The United States Delegation to the Department of State

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Geneva, May 9, 1954—noon.

Dulte 56. Personal for Secretary. Reference your Tedul 42.1 I put the point covered in the reference paragraph of your speech to the French in a broad and unmistakable hint in my private talk with Bidault last Friday.2 He got the point and it had, I think, a great deal to do with stiffening his position.

Smith
  1. Dated May 8, p. 728.↩
  2. Reported in telegram Dulte 54, May 8, p. 712.↩