740.00119 Council/4–646
The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bevin) to the Secretary of State66
[London,] 5 April, 1946.
Many thanks for your message, which I received through the United States Embassy today. I agree with you on both points. I am ready to go to Paris, as you suggest, on April 25th. I can only hope that our mutual friends will not play the time out so that we are not ready by May 1st. However, this is a risk which we must run.
I had already instructed my deputy to press forward on the drafts, reserving major matters on which no agreement can be reached for discussion by the Foreign Ministers, and I will renew my instructions to him to do so.
- The source text, which is unsigned, was transmitted to the Secretary of State by the British Chargé, John Balfour, on April 6.↩