Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, Western Europe, Volume IV

840.50 Recovery/9–2449

Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. G. Hayden Raynor of the United States Delegation at the United Nations

secret

[Washington,] September 24, 1949.

Participants:	M. Maurice Couve de Murville, French Delegation
	Mr. G. Hayden Raynor, U.S. Delegation

During the course of Mr. Cohen’s¹ and my conversation with Couve on the Greek matter, I inquired casually of Couve if there had been any recent developments in Western Europe with respect to the idea of Spaak heading up the OEEC Organization.

Couve replied in almost these words: “What is the use of this now? Why should his talents be wasted on this Organization now? The OEEC is dead. You have killed it by your tri-partite financial talks in Washington.”²

1. Benjamin V. Cohen, an Alternate U.S. Representative at the United Nations.
2. For documentation on these talks, see pp. 832 ff.