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    "ocrText": "WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1954\nIn at 8:00 A. M.\n(3)\nStaff meeting on press conference. Discussed as main upcoming topics:\n1.\nGeneva Conference with South Korean offer for UN-\nsupervised election May 20th and stories on defeat\nof U. S. policies.\n2.\nIndo-China and Asia - Loss of Dien Bien Phu and\ncollective action measure.\n3.\nChurchill renewal of Big Four meeting.\n4.\nBi-partisan foreign affairs.\n5.\nUN atomic proposal and Soviet reaction.\n6.\nArmy-McGarthy hearings - On cutting off hearings\non television and on Army personnel giving classi-\nfied information to Senator.\n7.\nAmerican defenses and UMT\n8. Taft-Hartley\n9. St. Lawrence\n10. 18-year old vote\n11. California delegation pledging support for Eisenhower.\n12. Truman and his criticism.\nBefore Presidential briefing discussed international situation with Dulles.\nHe stressed two points for the President to make: (1) Some papers were\nmaking point of saying President and Dulles were in opposition, particularly\non domino theory and (2) that French papers were saying that Dulles had\nwritten off Indo-China.\nDiscussed with Secretary Humphrey story on resignation of Coleman\nAndrews - Humphrey said nothing to it Discussed with Brownell\nthree items: (1) Security Division of Department of Justice to handle\nprosecution in national security cases; (2) Attorney General bill sub-\nmitted yesterday to (a) get subversives in defense plants and (b) to bring\nbefore Subversive Activities Control Board business of labor unions con-\ntrolled by Communists; (3) Letter from McClellan and Mundt which they\nhad sent to Attorney General asking him for interpretation of law on\nwhether any criminal violation in connection with the Army officer giving\nMcCarthy secret document - Brownell told me (not for use at conference,\nhowever) that he was going to reply saying he believed there had been a\ncriminal violation and that to bring Senator McCarthy before Grand Jury\nfor testimony under oath it would be necessary for the Senate to pass a\nresolution to that effect. Going to break story late today or tomorrow\nmorning."
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