740.00119 Council/10–545: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 5—8:34 p.m.]
5878. Bidault gave me this morning an account in detail of his experiences in London which while very interesting did not give me anything outstanding. He was very much upset by the Russian attitude and very much worried about its possible future effect on France.
He took occasion to praise very highly the part played by Secretary Byrnes for whom he expressed much admiration.
He said that Couve de Murville would endeavor to impress upon Assistant Secretary Dunn the French point of view in regard to internationalization of the Ruhr and Rhineland.89 He would also talk at a later date on the same subject to the British “Deputy”.
Sent Dept 5878, repeated London 731.
[For text of address by the Secretary of State reporting on the First Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, broadcast from Washington on October 5, 1945, see Department of State Bulletin, October 7, 1945, page 507.]
- For additional documentation regarding the conversations in London on the matter of French proposals for the Ruhr and the Rhineland, see vol. iii, pp. 880–925, passim. ↩