February 17–March 30: Soviet Acceptance of the Western Proposal for a Foreign Ministers Meeting on Berlin


237. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1214. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Merchant. The meeting was held at Aspen Lodge. For the President’s account of this conversation, see Waging Peace, pp. 354—355.


238. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1214. Secret. Drafted by Merchant. The meeting was held at Aspen Lodge. For Macmillan’s account of this conversation and the two that follow, see Riding the Storm, pp. 646–647; for Eisenhower’s account, see Waging Peace, p. 355.


239. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1214. Top Secret. Drafted by Reinhardt. The meeting was held at Aspen Lodge. For other accounts of this conversation, see the source note, Document 238.


240. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1214. Secret. Drafted by Merchant. For other accounts of this conversation, see the source note, Document 238.


241. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1214. Top Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Reinhardt and cleared by Merchant.


243. Telegram From the Embassy in Germany to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 762.00/3–2459. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution; Noforn. Repeated to London, Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Vienna.


245. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up, Meetings with the President. Top Secret.