Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Canada Hume Wrong, and Norris S. Haselton

$/5 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation 827 129 DATE: May 14, 1951 SUBJECT: Conversation with Canadian Ambassador $ PARTICIPANTS: Hume Wrong, Canadian Ambassador an BERVICE as Secretary Mr. Haselton, BNA COPIES TO: EUR (2) BNA - Mr. Raynor Embassy Ottawa U.,S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 The Canadien Ambassador called by appointment at 2:30 today. He opened the conversation by saying that he is leaving tomorrow for a short visit to Ottawa and merely wished to see if there were any thoughts or messages which I might like him to convey to Mr. Pearson or other officials in Ottava. I said I had nothing particularly in mind but asked that my personal regards be given to Mr. Pearson. The current Congressional hearings on the MacArthur case were dis- cussed briefly. Ambassador Wrong said he felt that one of the most unfortunate results of the hearings would be a distinct loss of flexi- bility in the future conduct of our foreign affairs stemming from the many statements on foreign policy which those testifying are being called upon to make during the hearings. I agreed that this is a regrettable feature of the hearings. In a brief discussion of two or three aspects of U.S. Far Eastern policy, I indicated that no change in our present position is to be expected. Ambassador Mrong raised the subject of Mr. Pearson's recent speech, saying that he had received a long letter from Mr. Pearson in which the latter stated that, had he known that General MacArthur was being relieved of his office, he would not have made some of the statements on Canadian- U.S. relations which were actually included in his speech. The DECLASSIFIED E.0. 10501