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Memorandum by the Secretary of State 1
Lisbon Conference
I discussed the proposed plan to have a meeting in London prior to Lisbon. I incidentally mentioned that this conflicted with the engagement which the President wished me to keep in Wisconsin. He said that he had forgotten about my going abroad and withdrew his request.
He expressed concern at the difficulties which were developing in the path of the Lisbon conference and thought that we must make every possible effort to get the agreement with Germany and the EDC agreement completed this month.
He offered me the use of the Independence, stating that although it was now in the shop going through an overhaul, he would speak to General Landry about it and believed that it could be gotten ready in a week’s time. General Landry is to get in touch with us. If he does not do so, we might get in touch with him.
- This memorandum covers a discussion by the Secretary of State during his meeting with President Truman on Feb. 4, one of the periodic meetings of the Secretary with the President to consider major foreign policy questions. Copies of this memorandum were directed to Perkins (EUR), Barnes (S/S), and Matthews (G). Other issues discussed were wholly unrelated to the Lisbon Conference or Europe and are reported on in separate memoranda.↩