751.13/1–1351: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in France 1
3732. For Amb. ReEmbtel 4032 Jan 132 Pres today approved ur extending invitation to Pleven Jan 29–30 informal visit Wash.
Regret inability offer choice dates but Jan 29–30 are only days within suggestion last para reftel and after Eisenhower has reported.3
If convenient to you it wld be helpful to us if you could be here for visit.
[Page 296]Wld appreciate further detailed info on subjects Pleven desires discuss. Submit any items you believe Pres or Sec shld raise that are not on Pleven’s list. Who will accompany him.
View press speculation hope visit will not leak pending issuance coordinated Wash–Paris communiqué which shld be done soonest. Therefore suggest you consult Pleven and submit to Dept brief draft statement to effect that as PM has indicated desire to discuss with Pres mutual problems Pres has invited Pleven visit Wash Jan 29–30,4 etc.
- Drafted by Godley and cleared with Lacy, Director of the Office of Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs.↩
- Supra.↩
- For documentation on Eisenhower’s tour of various NATO capitals in January 1951, see vol. iii, Part 1, pp. 392 ff.↩
- In telegram 4083 from Paris, January 16, Ambassador Bruce reported that Pleven had accepted “with great pleasure” the invitation to visit Washington between January 29 and 30 and that detailed information on subjects he wished to discuss with the President and other American officials would be sent to Washington as soon as possible. (751.13/1–1651)↩