Secretary’s Memoranda, lot 53D444, Memoranda—January 1951
Memorandum by Lucius D. Battle, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
In a meeting this afternoon preceding the meeting with Mr. Pleven, Mr. Acheson said that he had talked last night to Mr. Pleven and had raised with him then the “Yugoslav matter.”1 It was the consensus of the meeting that since we had talked with Mr. Pleven about this last night it was not necessary to discuss it in the meeting this afternoon. I gather that the Secretary followed the lines of the Department’s notes on this subject2 as he said that this had been omitted in the discussion this morning but that he had covered the matter last night in the discussion.
The Secretary also said that he had spoken to Mr. Pleven last night about the French proposal for consultation of the Governments of the United States, United Kingdom and France. He said that he told him that this would cause much trouble. The Secretary did not go into any further detail on what he had said but I am confident he repeated the line which was prepared for the President’s remarks in the meeting today.