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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Jack McFall, and Edward W. Barrett
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Jack McFall, and Edward W. Barrett
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CHANGED 801 CONFIDENTIAL : . ARCHIVES SERVICE" "NATIONAL RECORDS AND OTHER the 72 March 20, 1951 s/s: Before the Secretary's departure for the Hill this morning Mr. McFall and Mr. Barrett saw him for a moment. Mr. McFall said that he had a call from Mr. William Foster of ECA in which Mr. Foster said that Senator Chavez would introduce at noon today a bill which would remove the Voice of America and Point IV from the State Department and place them under ECA. Mr. Barrett and Mr. McFall wanted the Secrétary to call the Senator and ask him to hold up introduction of this bill until the Secretary had la schance to discuss it with him. The Senator said that he would like very much to discuss it with Mr. Acheson and the two arranged to have lunch together at 12:30 tomorrow. Mr. Acheson wants to be thoroughly briefed on the issues involved in this and particularly on what he should say to Senator Chavez. There are several areas of the Department involved in this matter. Can someone pull together as soon as possible the necessary information so that the Secretayy may be thoroughly briefed before his luncheon tomorrow. L. D. Battle Chavez did - introduce bill DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 3(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug 5-12-26 S:LDB:dhm By NLT- HC * NARS Date 6-24-76 CONFIDENT#