Editorial Note
In further discussions, April 25 to 27, the United States and France considered whether the Laotian question should be raised in the United Nations Security Council and whether France might borrow C–119 aircraft and their crews to carry heavy equipment into Laos. The former question was discussed by Dulles with Bidault on April 25 and with Mayer on April 26; the latter question was discussed by Dulles with Mayer on April 26 and by Wilson with Pleven on April 27. A record of Dulles’ two conversations with Mayer was transmitted in telegram 5675 from Paris, April 27 (printed in volume XIII, Part 1, page 512); a memorandum of Dulles’ conversation with Bidault is in the Conference files, lot 59 D 95, CF 152; and a record of Wilson’s conversation with Pleven was transmitted in telegram 5708 from Paris, April 28 (751J.5/4–2853).