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TOP SHORUT
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
COPY NO. /
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
OF 5 COPIES
June 30, 1950
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE"
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY
My memorandum of the discussions at Blair
House on the evening of June 25th shows on pages
1 and 2 that the President asked you to open the
discussion and that in your opening statement
you recommended the use of the 7th Fleet to
prevent an attack on Formosa.
The Joint Chiefs and finally Secretary
Johnson entered the discussion later and
approved in general your views.
My record also records that before dinner
General Bradley read aloud a memorandum by
General MacArthur emphasizing his views about
the importance of denying Formosa to the
Communists. I arrived at Blair House in the
midst of that reading. My memorandum does not
state but I now istinctly recall that after
General Bradley had finished reading the
memorandum before dinner the President stated
that he was goong to make the decisions but he
was not going to make them all that night; that
after dinner he wanted to hear the views of
everybody and he would then decide what was
to be done.
Philip C. Jessup
DECLASSIFIED
E O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
2.29.75
Depr. of State letter,
S/A:PCJ:MTB
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Bz NLT- He NARS Date 6-11-26