Memorandum of the Press and Radio News Conference

TROMAN "NATIONAL (NOT FOR THE PRESS) LARE ARCHIVES AND RETER RECORDS (FOR DEPARTMENTAL USE ONLY) SERVICE" DEPARTMENT OF STATE NO.6 MEMORANDUM OF THE PRESS AND RADIO NEWS CONFERENCE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951 ASSISTANT SECRETARY MILLER'S TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA At his press and radio news conference this morning, Secretary Acheson said that he would have for them at the end of the conference a mimeographed announcement of Mr. Edward Miller's trip to South America, which would begin from New York on February 17. The Secretary said that the highlights of the trip were that Mr. Miller was going, first of all, to Brazil, where he would confer with the new administratic in Brazil and Ambassador Johnson on economic and political ques- tions which the new administration wanted to take up with us. The Secretary continued that Mr. Miller would then go on to Montevideo, to the inauguration of the new president of Uru- guay. Mr. Acheson said that after that he would go to Buenos Aires, where they had, among other things, something which was, he thought, of interest. Mr. Acheson explained that they were now inaugurating in this hemisphere what were called Pan American Games, which were the counterpart here of the Olympic Games. He said they would take place in the intervals between the Olympic Games. He remarked that a series of those were being held at Buenos Aires. He added that Mr. Miller was not entering the games. The Secretary continued that from there Mr. Miller would go on to Santiago, Chile, to attend the meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He explained that this would be the first meeting of a major United Nations organiza- tion to be held in South America. He added that Mr. Miller would stop in Peru on his way back. (See Press Release NO. 116) McMAHON RESOLUTION Asked if he had any comment on the McMahon resolution ex- pressing friendship for the Russian people, the Secretary re- plied that we had been asked by Chairman Connally to make a formal report-- Departmental report--on that resolution and that we were now at work on that. He continued that he thought we could say now that the attitude of the Department was one of most sympathetic interest in the resolution. He stated that we believed it expressed what the fundamental attitude of the people of the United States was toward one another and our at- titude toward any countries which would be willing to allow this attitude to be expressed in their areas. He declared that we thought it represented generally the attitude of the Ameri- can people toward the Russian people. He remarked that the great difficulty was that the Soviet Government would not per- mit that attitude to be known and suppressed all relationships between Soviet people and others. He added that the fact re- mained that WE were basically a friendly people, full of good will for other people. YUGOSLAVIA United States Policy on Aggression A correspondent said that recently there had been con- siderable speculation publicly about the United States atti- tude toward Yugoslavia, especially if Yugoslavia were put under some pressure or threat of attack. Asked if there were