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

No. 441
Editorial Note

February 8, 1954

The United States Delegation staff meeting at 9:30 a.m. on February 8 was largely concerned with press reaction to the conference. (USDEL MIN/9, Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 205) Following the delegation meeting MacArthur met with Roberts and Seydoux for the session of the Tripartite Working Group at 10:30, which was devoted to the tactics for the restricted quadripartite meeting to be held at 3 p.m. (BER MIN–14, Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 192) At noon the Foreign Ministers met for lunch at Bidault’s residence to consider the question of a five-power meeting. No record of their discussion has been found in Department of State files, but it is referred to in BER MIN–14. At the same time C.D. Jackson and Tyler had lunch with Erich Ollenhauer who consistently probed for “a substitute for the EDC as a means of obtaining Soviet consent to reunification of Germany on Western terms.”

(Memorandum of conversation by Tyler, Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 203)