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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Senator Bourke Hickenlooper
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Memorandum of Conversation
DATE:
december 27, 1950
SUBJECT:
PARTICIPANTS:
Senator Hickenlooper
The Secretary
COPIES TO:
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Senator Hickenlooper telephoned me this afternoon to ask whether
he could come in for a talk. I snid that he could come in immediately
or I would make an appointment later at his convenience. He came at
once. and stayed with me for about half an hour.
The Senator said that he wes deeply concerned about the course
of events and about positions which he would be called upon to take and
would like to tell me some of his worries. He said that he would regard
our conversation as wholly confidential and would not repeat it or mention
me in any way.
The Senator spoke first about the course of events in the Far Rast.
He thought that the misfortunes of the campaign in Korea were under
mining our position in Japen, the Philippines and on the continent of
Asia and asked whether It was not desirable and necessary to have what
he called a diversion in Asim. By this he meant fomenting outbresks
against the Communists in China and possible use of the Army on Formosa
to make landings on the mainland. He spoke of a meeting of the rrmed
Services Committee of the Benate which he had been invited to attend nt
which
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
SEGRET
Dept. of State
letter, 10.21.72
PROJEAT
He NARS Dater 12.4.77
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