No. 558
Editorial Note
Secretary of State Acheson, Secretary of Defense Lovett, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, and Director for Mutual Security Harriman led a large United States Delegation to Paris for the Tenth Session of the North Atlantic Council held at the Palais de Chaillot, December 15–18. Regarding this meeting, including a discussion of the preparation of the background papers and a summary of each meeting, see the editorial note, volume V, Part 1, page 348.
During the meetings, Secretary Acheson held two talks with the French, one with Defense Minister Pleven and one with Foreign Minister Schuman. Acheson met with Pleven on the evening of December 17 to discuss the French amendments to the Annual Review resolution; a summary of this meeting is in Secretary’s Letters, lot 56 D 459, “F–G”. The following evening Acheson visited Schuman in his office at the Quai d’Orsay, along with British Foreign [Page 1286] Secretary Eden, where a discussion of Indochina took place; for the record of this meeting, see the memorandum of conversation by Acheson, December 22, volume XIII, Part 1, page 323. Apparently no meeting was held between United States and French officials concerning the question of aid to France during these meetings.