Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Special Counsel to the President Charles Murphy

June 7-1951 145-a Mr. Murphy telephoned the Secretary and said that he had talked with the President about the way in which Senator Morese's inquiry about investigating the China Lobby should be handled. The President, he reported, thought that the best course to follow probably would be for the Secretary to say to the Committee that he had been in touch with the President and that the President would be glad to see that whatever information there is on the subject in the Executive Departments is pulled together and provided to a committee. It may take some time to do this, but he would issue written instructions to the Department of the Treasury and Department of Justice. The Secretary said that he would like to hold off for the following day on this matter, until he had time to look at the papers which the Department was getting together and to talk a little further with the President and give to him any suggestions the De- partment might have when they looked further at the material which the Department has and is getting together. He would then be prepared to give the Committee his answer on Saturday. But it was physically impossible for him to look at the material in the Department until tomorrow, and he would like to be able to consider the President's