CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER SCHUMANN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-139-4-4-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 23, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

NNNN No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/07/15: LOC-HAK-139-4-4-9
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SECRET
FM PARIS
TO THE WHITE HOUSE
ZEM
S E C R E T 231759Z JUNE 70
WHITE HOUSE FOR DR. KISSINGER
FM PARIS AMBASSADOR WATSON 402
NOD IS
SUBJECT: CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER SCHUMANN
1. IN A,CALL ON THE FOREIGN MINISTER THIS MORNING, HE EXPRESSED HIS
DIS
P
AP
OINTMENT OVER THE WAY INITIATIVE WAS STARTED
. HE WAS DIS-
-APPOINTED THAT ITALY, ARABS AND ISRAELIS TOLD ABOUT INITIATIVES BEFORE
FRENCH, STATING IT DEPRECATED FOUR POWER TALKS.
2. . FIRST IMPACT OF PROCEDURE: HE WILL BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS
NO LEAKAGE STATED NOT RIGHT THING TO - DO, AS THIS IS A SPECIAL TIME WHEN
GAP BETWEEN OURSELVES AND RUSSIA NARROWER THAN IT HAS BEEN LAST 12
MONTHS. ON THE OTHER HAND, HE WAS PLEASED THAT WE WERE ENCOURAGING'
JARRING NEGOTIATE, WHICH THE FRENCH HAD SUGGESTED TO SISCO. WITH-
DRAWAL EFFORT REASONABLE APPROACH ACCORDING TO SCHUMANN. URGED ME
TO SUGGEST WASHINGTON TO BRING BACK NEGOTIATION TO FRAMEWORK OF FOUR
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3. SCHUMANN MUCH MORE RESTRAINED WITH ME THAN ALPHAND "WAS WITH
BLAKE, AND UNDERNETH IT ALL MY REACTION IS THAT HE IS PLE/' SED WITH
INITI
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