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Memorandum of Conversation, by an Adviser of the United States Delegation to the Trusteeship Council ( McKay )

is had asked the French Delegation to raise an objection to the fact that Mr. Sears ’ statements on the French Cameroons and French Togoland in the Trusteeship Council were being publicized in West Africa by the United States Information Officers in Lagos and Accra. Mr. Huré said that the French Delegation did not object strongly to the substance of Mr. Sears ’ statements but to the fact that the exploitation of such statements by hostile elements in West Africa would weaken the position of France and the United States there. Mr. Huré said that he thought the French Ambassador in Washington wo…