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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer
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ARCHIVES NATIONAL AND
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CONFIDENTIAL
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October 27, 1950
Secretary Sawyer called the Secretary today regarding Senator
Herbert OConor (Md.'s) recent moves in the direction of exploring
our export control policy to China. Mr. Sawyer said that he had spoken
to Senator O'Conor who was interested in the "Flying Cloud" incident
and in some shipments of rubber tires. Secretary Sawyer said these
were not too important but that the important thing was that Senator
*Conor apparently was trying to get a broad-scale investigation into
the whole matter. Mr. Sawyer said this of course would result in
the State Department's getting the onus of the investigation. He said
that as a mater of policy we had clamped down on exports to China
months before the Korean crisis developed but that this would make
little difference if the newspapers got into the matter as they would
undoubtedly distort the facts.
The Secretary said he had followed this interest of Senator
D'Conor to some extent and was not sure just what he was up to.
He said he would consider getting hold of him and talking it out
with him.
Can someone look into this assoon as possible and see where
we go from here.
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Are 3-14-24
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By NLT- HC , NARS Data 6-15-76
CONFIDENTIAL