Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
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OCR Page 1 of 4INCOMING TELEGRAM
Department of State
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TELEGRAPH BRANCH
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Rec'd:
September 21, 1950
FROM: New York
12:05 a.m.
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Secretary of State
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SECTO 36, September 20, 11:14 p.m.
DECLASSIFIED
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BUNLIAH NARS, Date 11:22:29
PERSONAL FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM ACHESON.
Since my telegram to you of September 14, we have kept
you informed of developments from day to day both on NAT
and the meetings of the three Ministers and the GA. This
telegram attempts to give you some impressions of my own
from these various meetings.
1. In the first place in the NAT Council our discussion there,
as I thought would happen, did not end on Saturday and had to
go over to Monday.
Out of these discussions came these general conclusions, one
of which at least represents a change of position.
The French throughout the meeting merely reiterated views
which I reported to you before, and I think made clearer
than before the fact that the difficulty lay in Paris and,
specifically in the Socialist Party and even more specifically
with Moch. As a result of the discussions and the views of
all the other Ministers, Moch will be here tomorrow. The
British are also bringing Shinwell, who because of his Socialist
convictions has influence with Moch.
The British did change their position as a result of communica-
tion with London. They are now prepared to accept the principle
of German participation in a united defense force and to work
out the details as speedily as possible.
So far as the rest of the countries were concerned, although
we started out with varying degrees of hesitation, I think
we ended up with very little doubt indeed that all of these
countries accepted the principle and would join in its
application.
However, as the discussion went on, it became clear that in
some cases, Norway and Denimark, for instance, and Portugal
to a minor extent, the implications of a united force hau
to be very carefully considered. Their geographic position
made it
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