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800.24/1413

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Stettinius)

[ Washington ,] December 1, 1943.

Subject: Aide Mémoire of November 29 relative to the Middle Eastern discussions.

Lord Halifax brought up this matter and suggested that we might possibly wish to reconsider the aide-mémoire. He raised the following points: (1) that it will be very difficult to prepare the form of an agenda; (2) he does not feel that Turkey and Ethiopia should be included in the discussions; and (3) he feels that they should take place in London because the experts of the British Government on these problems are located there.

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He told me he would be away in North Carolina for four or five days and the matter was left that Mr. Wallace Murray would communicate with Sir Ronald Campbell14 about it.

E[dward] S[tettinius]
  1. British Minister in the United States.↩