Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE
WASHINGTON
June 23, 1951
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject:
Proposed statement to Congress
during Foreign Aid Bill hearings
on magnitude and duration of U.S.
assistance to NATO countries.
The attached draft of a statement, to be made next
week to the Congress in the course of hearings which start
on June 26 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is
designed to indicate to the Congress and the public that
we have a plan, we have a reasonable idea of what it will
cost and how long it will take, we have a program for
meeting that cost, and that, as part of that program,
appropriations in Fiscal Years 1953 and 1954 will be
required as large as, and probably larger than, that
requested for Fiscal Year 1952.
It is considered essential to success with the 1952
program to make a statement of this kind to the Congress
so that they can have a better knowledge of the contribu-
tion the present proposal will make to the long-term goal
and will enjoy some assurance that there will be an end
to large-scale assistance.
This proposal is based on discussions which I have
had with Secretary Marshall, General Bradley, Mr. Lawton,
and representatives of Secretary Snyder, Mr. Foster and
Mr. Harriman.
General Marshall, Secretary Snyder and Mr. Foster
will join with me in discussing it with you.
We would like to secure your agreement to make this
further commitment of United States interest in, and
willingness to support, the creation of an adequate de-
fense force under the North Atlantic Treaty as essential
to United States security and as support to General
Eisenhower in the task which he has undertaken.
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