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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
THeSECRETARY |
New York
Suite 35A at
the Waldorf
October 28, 1958
5:50 p.m.
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
Participants:
The Secretary of State
Thomas E. Murray
The Secretsry said he was glad that Mr, Murray would
be going to the Geneva conference on nuclear testing.
He
said he wes counting on Mr.
Myrray's cooperation,
stressing
that we could not afford a show of division in these very
delicate negotistions.
He noted thet they would now be made
all the more difficult by the fact that the Soviets avpesred
to be teking = new look at their position.
Mr.
Murrsy assured the Secretary of his cooperetion.
He
said he would not "speak out" when he disagreed, out would
express his viewpoint privately to Senator Gore.
He said he
had long fsvored stopping the testing of large weapons, but
thought it essential to continue making smell yield tests.
He
thought we could satisfy everyone's needs, the scientists and
military together,
by underground tests.
The Secretery pointed out thet we needed not only weapons
but public good will and the support of our allies as well.
He thought therefore that the main question would be one of
tactics at the Geneva conference to insure that the blame for
any breakdown was lsid to the Soviets.
We should not ourselves
appear militaristic.
The Secretary said that if we could work
it out without jeopardy to our foreign relations, he would
favor,underground testing.
He said he did not think the con-
ference would be 3 success; that the Soviets would continue
testing and therefore we would then resume our own testing.
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