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the Committee might consider recommending that action be postponed
until decision has been reached on:
(1) to what extent the AEC will
accept the recommendations of the last declassification conference,
and (2) to what extent bilateral agreements will be established.
At 10:20 a.m, Mr. John Hall arrived to talk about developments
in respect to the President's Plan,
Mr, Hall went over some of the negotiations with the Soviet
InterAmbassador on the subject of the President's plan for international
national
Matters cooperation in peaceful aspects of atomic energy. Many diplomatic
notes have been exchanged.
The U.S, position was:(1) to discuss
the problems of Soviet participation in private with the Russians,
(2) to make an overt offer to "keep the door open" to discussions,
and(3) to urge Soviet participation in the international conference.
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Geneva, during the first or second week of August, 1955, under the
auspices of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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national school would be set up.
Mr. Hall said the purpose wes to
maintain the momentum of the President's proposal and to demonstrate
our willingness to cooperate,
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sified basis for the first year or so, then go into the Gray Area as
bilateral agreements develop.
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