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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State1
Ambassador Makins asked me at Eden’s request how long I expected to be at Geneva. I said I expected to be there only for the first week. The Ambassador said he thought that Eden had hoped that he and I might be there for a fortnight, so that “we might deal with the Indochina matter”. I said I was very skeptical that Indochina would come up in a serious way in the first fortnight; that I foresaw procedural difficulties in this matter and was anxious myself, as I had indicated at Berlin, to get back shortly.
- Memorandum directed to Merchant and MacArthur; copies sent to Robertson and Johnson.↩