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    "ocrText": "2/13/54, Reel 3, T1 1 2, Pr\n7\nwe could do, and so forth, and the point that Dean mentioned about his statement\non the Chinesz a great deal of discussion of that. But I think the really\nsignificant parti in terms of checking on MacArthur's statement, might have\noccurred in the private conversation wi th the President about which I have\nnever seen any account.\nVOICE:\nWhat\nwas\nthe\nPresident's\nobject\nin\nhaving\nthe\nprivate\nconversations\nunreported\n0\nMacArthur\nWas that part of the plan?\nDR. JESSUP:\nNo, I don't think it was part of the plan. When MacArthur came in, the Presi-\ndent took him away to a separate house and they talked while all the rest of us\nwent to the place where the meeting was to be held. It was the President's\nidea of the moment, so far as I can tell.\nMR. ACHESON:\nThat's the sort of lethal things in which Chinfs of State get into. MacArthur\nwas practically a Chief of State at this time -- he was the Mikado of Japan\nand\nKorea.\nSeveral\ntimes\nwhen\nthe\nPresident\ngots\ntogether\nwith\nAttlee\nor\nChurchill\nor someone, a great tendency is to have these fellows go off by themselves;\nthis is just sheer murder and never ought to occur to a dog. It is a\nterrible thing to have happen, because you have no idea of what is said, and\nTAUMAN\nAdditional\nADAIN LIGP EAR\nthe President can tell you what he thinks was said; the other fellow is quite\nas sure that something different was said, and there is no way of resolving\nus.\nthis thing. You can get into terrible trouble with it, and with both Attlee\nand Churchill, and I'm sure this is another case.\nit\nVOICE:\nYou should think that with his difficulty with MacArthur that he would be\nsurprising that he had gotten involved in this situation.\nVOICE:\nYeah, you would, but -- [LAUGHTER]\nMR. ACHESON: Well, we have here something that came out in the hearings, which Mr. Rosenau\nhas put in on page 8 of Synopsis c, which is worth just reading before we go\non to other troubled things.\nMacArthur said -- I take it that this is at the public meeting, where people\nmade notes of this. \"We are no longer fearful of their intervéntion --\" that"
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