740.5/9–2350: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State
Secto 43. following is summary of ninth session, tripartite talks with Foreign Ministers and Defense Ministers.
[Page 343]The Ministers met in private session at 10.1 At 12:30 they were joined by their advisers. Secretary reported that there has been meeting of minds on written agreement on immediate measures in Germany. This agreement would be discussed by Acheson with Benelux Foreign Ministers and Lange only, (Text in Secto 45).2
Secretary reported that in the private session the US had explained possible troubles with Congress if no decision were reached on German problem. France, on other hand, could do no more than had previously been expressed without a further decision from its government.
There had been tripartite agreement, subject to minor revisions by deputies, on draft NATO resolution and draft NATO communiqué. (Texts in Secto 46 and 47).3
Secretary emphasized that these documents do not imply that this problem has been finalized. He noted that the basic question of German participation is still left open and the three governments will continue to work for a solution. In the Council these documents are not considered to be final but merely as statements by some of the members. It was agreed Marshall to take up postponement of Defense Committee meeting to October 28.
Sent Department Secto 43; Department repeat Paris unnumbered, London unnumbered, and Frankfort unnumbered.
- This private session is covered in Secto 44, infra.↩
- Scheduled for publication in volume iv.↩
- Secto 46, September 23, containing the draft resolution, is not printed. The approved text is printed in Secto 55, September 26, p. 350. Secto 47, September 23, containing the draft communiqué, is also not printed. The communiqué, issued by the Council at New York on September 26, is printed in Department of State Bulletin, October 9, 1950, p. 588.↩