313. Memorandum of a Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and Foreign Secretary Lloyd, Foreign Secretary Lloyd’s Suite, Waldorf Astoria, New York, October 8, 1956, 10 p.m.1
I called on Selwyn Lloyd at his suggestion. He asked to see me alone. He seemed distraught and worried and said he had a press conference with British correspondents who had harassed him about differences with the United States. He had fruitlessly tried to reassure them that we were united.
He then turned to a long cable message which he had just received from Nutting, reporting a talk with Krishna Menon, and he had rather an elaborate outline of a plan which he had received from Menon. This followed with some elaboration the lines which had previously been reported to us2 … . He asked me what I thought should be done with it. I said that that was pretty much up to him. He implied that he thought the outline might be acceptable, but that he did not like to negotiate through Menon.
- Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 795. Top Secret. Drafted by Dulles.↩
- On October 11, a member of the British Delegation handed Macomber a copy of the plan, which Krishna Menon had presented to the British upon his arrival in New York. The copy is ibid., Central Files, 974.7301/10–1156.↩
- Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩