500.CC/2–2745: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
1481. Please communicate immediately to Mr. Eden the following message from the Secretary in Mexico City:
“I enjoyed my conversation with you a few minutes ago. The purpose of my call was to appeal to you to impress upon the French the importance, from the standpoint of future world harmony, of their joining with the other four powers in sponsoring the San Francisco Conference. Second, that I am being placed in a very difficult and embarrassing position with 18 Foreign Ministers meeting in Mexico City where I have been a week, and it has not been possible for me to discuss with them any details of the voting procedure or the plans for the San Francisco Conference; that the Mexico City Conference will be completed in the next 2 or 3 days and from the [Page 97] standpoint of frankness and harmony here it is most important to the great cause toward which we are all working for the invitations to be issued on March 1 as agreed upon at the Crimea Conference, thereby making it possible for me to make an explanation on Thursday, March 1, in Mexico City to the 18 Foreign Ministers before they complete their work on world security matters. Please assure the French Foreign Minister from me of my keen desire to work with him in close friendship and mutual confidence and that of course France, as well as any other country represented at the San Francisco Conference, will have every opportunity to present its views relative to world organization.”