According to the account in Acheson, Present at the Creation, pages 620–621, the Secretary of State met in private with Churchill following an audience with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, at the Royal [Page 78] residence of Clarence House. At that audience, at which Foreign Secretary Eden was also present, Acheson apparently spoke of his satisfaction at the outcome of the completed quadripartite meetings. The conversation with Churchill was concerned with Acheson’s proposal for a revision of Churchill’s impending speech to the House of Commons on the conduct of military operations in Korea. A detailed account of Acheson’s receipt and revision of Churchill’s proposed speech early in the morning of February 19 and his conversation with Churchill in the afternoon of that day is presented in Acheson, Sketches from Life, pages 71–75.
