316. Editorial Note
The United States Delegation began work on November 3 with a meeting at 8:45 a.m. attended by Phleger, Bowie, Bohlen, and McCardle. Following this all officers of the delegation met at 9:15. At 9:30 representatives of the three Western delegations discussed East-West contacts, and at 10 the Experts on East-West Contacts met. At 1:15 Secretary Dulles, Bowie, MacArthur, and Wainhouse attended a lunch at Macmillan’s villa and discussed disarmament. From 3 to 6:55 p.m. the Foreign Ministers held their sixth meeting at the Palais des Nations. At 7:30 Suydam held a press briefing and at 8:30 Dulles hosted a dinner for the senior officers of the four delegations. On the evening of November 3, three other meetings were held. During one Kidd briefed Blankenhorn on the course of the conference; in a second MacArthur, Pink, and de Margerie discussed Algeria; in the third Tyler received Ha Vinh Phuong, First Secretary of the Vietnamese Embassy in Paris. (Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627, CF 574 and 609)
Records of the Quadripartite Experts meeting, the lunch at Macmillan’s villa, the sixth session of the Foreign Ministers, and Kidd’s briefing of Blankenhorn follow. No records have been found for the meeting at 8:45 a.m., the tripartite meeting of Experts on East-West Contacts, or Secretary Dulles’ dinner. Records for the remaining meetings are ibid.