396.1 GE/5–554: Telegram
The United States Delegation to the Department of State
Secto 109. Repeated information Paris 202. Reference: Secto 105, repeated Paris 200.1 Chauvel states Gromyko raised objection to present three chairmen or Wan alone or any outsider or to letting nine choose.
He proposed rotation among five or among four (leaving out France as participant in fighting), both of which Chauvel of course rejected. Chauvel stated rotation of UK and USSR unacceptable to French.
Although he might easily have done so Gromyko made no mention of including India or additional participants.
Molotov dining with Eden tonight and they will discuss it further, with Eden again pressing for either rotation of three or Wan alone.