General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Records Relating to the Geneva Conference

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General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Records Relating to the Geneva Conference

1954

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This series consists of memorandums, lists, forms, speeches, background papers, reports, minutes, telegrams, memorandums of conversations, press briefings and releases and photographs. The records relate to a meeting of Foreign Ministers hoping to establish an independent, reunified Korea and bring peace to Indochina by ending hostilities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The meetings were divided into a Korean Phase and an Indochina Phase. Subjects discussed include the initiation of free elections, United Nations authority, the removal of foreign troops, the end of imperialism and the spread of communism. Many of the documents are verbatim transcriptions of the diplomats present such as John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State and V. M. Molotov, Foreign Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Specific documents include “Major Provisions of the Indochina Armistice Agreements” and the “Declaration by the Sixteen” a document which ended the conference noting that there would be no resolution to the situation in Korea. Documents are in French and English.

2 linear feet, 7 linear inches

eng, Latn

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Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959

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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), was the fifty-third Secretary of State of the United States for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had a long and distinguished public career with significant impact upon the formulation of United States foreign policies. He was especially involved with efforts to establish world peace after World War I, the role of the United States in world governance, and Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 ...

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-1986

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