Memorandum of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator Warren Austin, Ambassador Ernest Gross, Philip Jessup, H. Freeman Matthews, Paul Nitze, Dean Rusk, Lucius Battle, and William Sheppard
Images (6)
Document
| id |
id
183392848
|
|---|---|
| contentType |
contentType
document
|
| source |
source
import
|
Source image fields (6)
Extracted text
OCR Page 1 of 6NLT 814
383
conf
DEL LASSIFIED
E. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (17)
December 2, 1950
Dept. of
State letter,
PR
By N.T.
HC . NARS
333
MEMORANDUM OF MEETING
IN SECRETARY'S OFFICE
10:30 a.m.
Participants: Secretary
Mr. Rusk
Senator Austin
Mr. Nitze
Ambassador Gross
Mr. Battle
Mr. Jessup
Mr. Sheppard
Mr. Matthews
Mr. Acheson opened the meeting with the request
that Mr. Trueheart of the R Area give a briefing on
the current situation in Korea.
After this briefing had taken place, the Secretary
said that we had given careful consideration to the
developments in Korea and had been in close touch with
the Military Establishment. He mentioned that the
Military were extremely pessimistic about the present
situation and said that it was uncertain just what the
decision would be so far as establishing a line on
which we could hold. He said that we were looking at
possible political courses in the light of the ex-
tremely grave military situation. He said that our
objectives in regard to Korea in the UN were as fol-
lows:
1. To increase the security of our troops that
are fighting there.
2. To localize the conflict; that is, avoid be-
coming involved in a more general war.
3. To end the Korean situation quickly on a
satisfactory UN basis and disengage US troops as
rapidly as possible.
the
4. To maintain a solid front among our allies
and, if possible, retain the support of a majority
of the UN.
In order to further these objectives we would take
the following line in the UN:
1. That the intervention of the Chinese Communists
has raised the gravest danger to the peace of
the world.
Relations
belongs_to
belongs_to