500.CC/2–2845: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State 91
[Received March 1—4:44 p.m.]
952. Confirming my telephone conversation with Ambassador Edwin Wilson,92 Bidault told me early this afternoon that he proposed to issue at the time of the announcement of his Government’s; participation in the San Francisco Conference a communiqué reading as follows:
“The Provisional Government of the French Republic which had accepted on the 23rd of this month the invitation to the San Francisco Conference which had been presented to me by the American Government in the name of three powers represented at the Yalta Conference, has decided to inform Washington that it also accepts, to be, with the United States, Great Britain, the USSR and China among the inviting powers to this Conference.
It is specified on this occasion that the government which did not participate in the establishment of the Dumbarton Oaks plan, modified at Yalta, agrees that these texts be taken as the basis for discussion but desires to make known that in its opinion certain amends [amendments] would be necessary in order to attain the end sought. The [Page 102] Provisional Government will shortly address to all interested governments its proposals on this subject.”93
- Text repeated in telegram 470, March 2, 7 p.m., to Mexico City for the information of the Secretary of State.↩
- Teletype of conversation not printed.↩
- In telegram 954, February 28, 10 p.m., from Paris, Ambassador Caffery reported: “I spoke to Bidault at 7:30 Paris time on the subject of not publishing his communiqué yet. He said he would see what could be done but I apprehend that he had jumped the gun. I have informed the Russians here of what we have been doing.” (500.CC/2–2845)↩