https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/ad88c1f8eaa93a77e918a1709c63dba7.pdf a8bafd6ce3c22b64bd632f05a6a2419b PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la loi sur faeces a I'information DS4F/3 9 8 NATOPARIS N0V7/5 7 CONFD Xm% IINTWt N F ^ L D N WASHDC PRIORITY REF OUR TELS 1 8 9 1 1899 N0V7 AND YOUR TEL DL959 N O V S / ? DEC MINISTERIAL COUNCIL /^&%6 f tJ^Sd/0j$4<> IN MR WILGRESS' ABSENCE AND ON HIS INSTRUCTIONS WE HWE NOW SOUNDED OUT THE FRENCH NETHERLANDS NORWEGIAN AND BELGIAN DELEGATIONS IN ADDITION TO THE UK AND USA DELEGATIONS RE YOUR IDEAS FOR A PARIS DECLARATION. 2.DE BEAUMARCHAIS THE NEW FRENCH COUNSELLOR LIKE PORTER OF THE UK DELEGATION COUR REF TEDTHOUGHT THE DECLARATION WOULD BE MEANINGFUL ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY CONCRETE DECISIONS.IN THIS CONNECTION HE PARTICULARLY STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF A DECISION RE STOCKPILING NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN NATO CUSTODY IN EUROPE.HE SEEMED DOUBTFUL ABOUT THE MECHANICS OF HAVING SPECIAL EXPERTS SENT FROM CAPITALS TO PREPARE THE DECLARATION AHEAD OF TIME BUT AGREED THAT PERMANENT DELEGATIONS HERE SHOULD WORK TOGETHER ON SUCH A PROJECT WHETHER IT WAS TO BE USED AS A SEPARATE DECLARATION OR AS A PART OF THE DEC COUNCIL COMMUNIQUE. 3.DE RANITZ THE NETHERLANDS MINISTER COUNSELLOR WAS MUCH INTERESTED IN YOUR IDEAS.HE TOLD US THAT HIS DELEGATION HAD PUT FORWARD SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE HAGUE WHO HAD AGREED BUT HAD ASKED HIM NOT TO TAKE INITIATIVES IN THIS RESPECT FOR THE TIME BEING.HIS OWN PROPOSAL HAD INCLUDED NOT ONLY A DECLARATION BUT SECTIONS TO BE AMPLIFIED IN THE LIGHT OF DECISIONS ACTUALLY TAKEN B^ THE COUNCI. ON SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL MILITARY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION. A.BOVESEN THE NORWEGIAN PERMANENT REP WAS PARTICULARLV GLAD TO EXCHANGE VIEWS.HE HAD TELEPHONED YESTERDAY BEFORE YOUR TEL ARRIVED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HIATUS IN PREPARING FOR THE MEETING THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT I T IS INTENDED TO COVER OR DECIDE THE FAILURE OR MR SPAAK DURING THE PAST TEN DAYS TO INFORM EITHER HIS STAFF OR THE COUNCIL OF HIS VIEWS AND THE UNCORRECTED SPATE OF RUMOURS IN THE PRESS ABOUT WHAT THE MEETING WILL BE EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE.HE GRUDGINGLY ACCEPTED THAT COUNCIL COULD NOT COME TO GRIPS WITH THE AGENDA AND RELATED QUESTIONS UNTIL AFTER SPAAK'S RETURN. . . * t 000448 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur faeces a I'information PAGE TWO t 9 0 2 5.HE WAS THEREFORE PLEASED THAT WE WERE AT LEAST TAKING SOME ACTION WHERE THIS SEEMED FEASIBLE.HE PARTICULARLY LIKET THE PURPOSES RELATED TO THE PROBLEM OF PRESENTING NATO DECISIONS WHICH WILL BE WEIGHED HEAVILY WITH A MILITARY CONTENT IN TERMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE UNCOMMITTED COUNTRIES.HE THOUGHT THE POINT COVERING DISARMAMENT VEk IMPORTANT.HE COMMENTED THAT HE HOPED THAT SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION WOULD NOT BE THE SUBJECT OF WHAT HE CALLED POLITICAL DEC IS IONS;HE FEARS THE EFFECT OF THIS ON SOME IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES IN WESTERN EUROPE. 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THE IDEA OF A DECLARATION PARTLY BECAUSE HE ANTICIPATES A SPATE OF UNOFFICIAL PUBLICITY ARISING OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND OTHER WORLD FIGURES.AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS CAUTIOUS WITH RESPECT TO A DECLARATION CONSIDERED AS A PUBLIC AFFIRMATION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO REPORT OUR VIEWS TO OSLO(FOR THIS PURPOSE HE TOOK NOTES OF OUR TENTATIVE LIST OF PURPOSES;AND THOUGHT HIS GOVT WOULD PROBABLY BE WELL DISPOSED IN PRINCIPLE BUT WOULD FEEL THAT NO GOVT SHOULD BE COMMITTED TO THE ISSUANCE OF A DECLARATION UNTIL IT IS KNOWN WHAT THE DECLARATION WILL CONTAIN. f.THE BELGIAN PERMANENT REP DE STAERCKE AGREED WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH YOUR PROPOSAL.HE COMMENTED PARTICULARLY ON THE LATTER HALF OF THE PURPOSES WHICH HE THOUGHT INTRODUCED SOME USEFUL FRESH THINKING.HE DID NOT COMMENT ON THE POINT ABOUT A POSSIBLE SUMMIT MEETING AND DID NOT APPEAR TO SEE DIFFICULTY IN THIS.HE THOUGHT THE DECLARATION MIGHT WELL HAVE A WELL WRITTEN PREAMBLE OF THE SAME GENERAL NATURE AS THE PREAMBLE TO THE NATO TREATY. 7,YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE AS REQUESTED DISCUSSED YOUR VIEWS INFORMALLY BUT THAT DELEGATIONS NATURALLY WISH TO REFER TO CAPITALS. WHILE WE CANNOT PREDICT THE LATTERS' REACTIONS,THE PRELIMINARY COMMENTS WE HAVE RECEIVED HERE HAVE ON THE WHOLE BEEN ENCOURAGING. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE ABSENCE OF OBJECTION TO THE POINT ABOUT A SUMMIT CONFERENCE IS THAT THE INITIAL IMPACT OF KHRUSHCHEV'S REF TO THIS IN HIS SPEECH REPORTED TODAY HAS SUGGESTED THE NEED FOR SOME NATO RESPONSE.WE HAVE NC DOUBT HOWEVER AS YOU HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE WORKING OUT OF THIS PART OF THE DECLARATION IN CONCRETF TERMS WOULD NOT BE VERY EASY BRIDLE 000449 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW02252 Title A name given to the resource NATOParis to External 1902 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07-Nov-57 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived �NATO - Stockpiling of atomic weapons in NATO countries,� RG25-A-3-b, vol. 5958, 50219-AL-1-40, pt. 1.1, Library and Archives Canada (LAC). 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