500.CC/2–2445
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
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I called Mr. Lacoste64 on the telephone at three o’clock this afternoon and said that we had been in touch with Ambassador Caffery by telephone and that the Ambassador had not received our telegram of last night regarding the invitations for the United Nations Conference.65 Mr. Caffery however reported that the Provisional French Government had already expressed its willingness to act as sponsor for the invitations to the United Nations Conference with one reservation—that it desires to reserve the right to present amendments to the Dumbarton [Page 91] Oaks proposals for consideration at San Francisco.66 I told Mr. Lacoste that any of the Governments was free to bring up anything at the Conference. It was, of course, a little unfortunate that one of the sponsoring powers should record that, but we would consider the French reply and see whether we could accept the reservation.
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- Francis Lacoste, Counselor of the French Embassy.↩
- Telegram 752, February 23, midnight, not printed; it repeated text of tele gram 1407 of the same date to London, p. 87.↩
- A memorandum of telephone conversations by the Acting Secretary of State with G. Hayden Raynor, Special Assistant to the U.S. Delegation at the Mexico City Conference, on February 24 reported the Secretary’s approval of the acceptance of the reservation which the Provisional French Government desired, as well as immediate consultation with the other three Governments respecting it (500.CC/2–2445).↩