Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Western Europe, Volume VII, Part 2

180. Memorandum of Conversation⁰

June 2, 1960.

SUBJECT

• Tripartite Consultation

[Here follows the same list of participants as Document 179.]

The Secretary referred to the tripartite discussion at his house last night with respect to tripartite consultation. He said he hoped in view of the conclusions they had reached that it would be satisfactory for the President to go ahead and reply to Macmillan’s letter of May 25¹ without waiting for a communication from General de Gaulle. Couve agreed that this would seem satisfactory. He said de Gaulle would probably also be replying to Macmillan and at the same time write to President Eisenhower.

Couve then said he supposed that he would meet the Secretary and Selwyn Lloyd again in September in New York on the occasion of the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. He suggested and the Secretary agreed that it would be relatively easy to arrange a further meeting between the three in New York with a minimum of press pressure or publicity.

0. Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1686. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Kohler and approved in S on June 3. See also Document 179.
1. Document 177.