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    "ocrText": "3/14/54 Reel 5, Track 1, Page 5\nraising ships, things of that sort, which would not take away from thadr\nforeign exchange situation.\nMR. ACHESON:\nWith that worked out, then the question was what sort of a conference were\nyou going to have in San Francisco. Well, we decided it was going to be\na political convention, run by bosses; therefore, this originally came up\nin the invitations, and the invitations made it quite clear that they were\ninvited to ratify a treaty, which had been circulated and which everybody\nhad agreed to. Then the question was how would you do that. So we began\nworking on the most fundamental thing in any large meeting, which is the\nrules. And we worked out a system by which the rules were going to organize\nTRUNAN\nthe convention and then the first rule was that whoever was recognized\ncould propose the ratification of the treaty. That then had to be con-\nADMIN\nand\nsidered wi thout amendments of any sort by anybody, although there\ncould be discussion.\nAnd\ndiscussion\nwas allowed of one hour per that in the rule?\nVOICE:\nThat's right.\nat\nby unanimous consent\nMR. ACHESON:\nAnd then/ the end of discussion of one hour a nation, if/you wanted to give\nanybody else another chance, you could. If you didn't, you had to vote\non the treaty without amendments. Well, that was a pretty rugged system,\nbut we worked this thing out and it seemed to us that this was the only\nin which\nchance. If you got this thing into a Russians could\ntalk about it for weeks and weeks and weeks, as they did in these councils\nof foreign ministers and any other meeting they got to, you were lost,\nbecause you would raise all these questions again that had all been nego-\ntiated out with the greatest possible difficulty. And any talk that took\nplace of any length was going to open all kinds of agreements and regula-\ntions and you would have an awful time. If we had any amendments in here,\nyou wouldn't have any organization at all. Any amendment would appeal to\nenough people to break up the whole show, and you couldn't do that. Well,"
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