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the conclusion of General de Gaulle's visit there would be a brief com-
munique.7
                                                   Vernon Walters8
                                              Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army



    7For text of this communique, see Department of State Bulletin, May 16,1960,
p. 771.
    8Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.






137. Memorandum of Conversation


                                        Washington, April 25, 1960.

PRESENT
    The President                     General DeGaulle
    Secretary Herter                  Foreign Minister Couve de Murville
    Under Secretary Dillon            Ambassador Alphand
    Ambassador Houghton               Mr. de Courcel
    General Goodpaster                Mr. Lebel
    Colonel Walters

    The President opened the conversation by saying that in their
talks on the previous day,' General DeGaulle and he were agreed on
procedures for the summit; that General DeGaulle would write Mr.
Khrushchev setting this forth and that they were in hopes of finishing by
Sunday, but if not, the President might return from Portugal for the
meeting. They had agreed that disarmament would be the major subject
for discussion though there was a slight difference of approach between
our way of approaching it and General DeGaulle's. General DeGaulle
wished to propose the prohibition of certain delivery systems for nu-
clear weapons with appropriate inspection which would be world-wide
and open Russia completely to inspection. He himself, in the light of
Khrushchev's rejection of his open skies proposal at Geneva in 1955,
wanted to start out more modestly with a limited area in which inspec-
tion techniques could be tested.


    Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1631.
Top Secret.
Drafted by Walters. The conversation took place at the White House.
    1See Document 136.