110.11 DU/9–1754
The Secretary of State to Prime Minister Mendès-France 1
Dear Mr. President: As I leave for home I want to tell you again of my regret that I was unable to come to Paris again on this trip, and resume the talks which we had in Paris when I came there last July.2
I believe my meetings with Adenauer and Eden have been useful in developing means of dealing with the problem which confronts all of us of the Atlantic community. Eden gave me a full account of his talks just concluded with you. As a result of this trip I am even more impressed with the need for speedy action and I hope and trust that the projected meeting of nine will mark a definitive step in our progress. I [Page 1225] am looking forward greatly to seeing you then. All this I hoped to tell you on the telephone, but it proved impossible to establish the connection.
I am asking Murphy my Deputy Under Secretary to ask to see you in Paris on his return from Rome so that you could in this way communicate more intimately than is possible by cable. The President and I hope very much to see you later on in New York and Washington.
Sincerely yours,
- The text of this message was transmitted to the Embassy in Paris in niact telegram 201, Sept. 17, which was repeated to the Department of State as telegram 1391.↩
- Documentation concerning Dulles’ visit to Paris, July 13–14, is presented in volume vi; for a record of the meeting on July 13 which dealt with the EDC, see the memorandum of July 13, p. 1018.↩