Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Germany and Austria, Volume VII, Part 1

396.1 BE/1–2954 Telegram

No. 384
The Secretary of State to the Department of State

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Berlin, January 29, 1954—6 p.m.

Dulte 17. Eyes only for Acting Secretary. We start immediately preparing position and tactics with British and French for restricted meeting of four Ministers next week. I intend to submit tomorrow to working group now set up by three Western delegations substance of proposal contained in Dulte 10¹ and approved by Tedul 5.² I would hope this could then become basis for agreed position of Bidault, Eden and myself.

I would appreciate, therefore, any necessary preparations in Washington being started at once, including, I would think, notifying confidentially USUN, Arthur Dean³ and American Embassy Seoul in view possibility leaks from British or French. Of course we cannot be sure British–French concurrence so project must be regarded highly tentative.

Dulles

1. Document 369.
2. See footnote 3, ibid.
3. U.S. Special Ambassador for the Korean Political Conference.