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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and President Harry S. Truman
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CONFIDENTIAL
December 12, 1949
MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
Participants: The President (at Key West)
ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS AND
Secretary Acheson
Item 1.
Re the course of action to be taken in Bulgaria
I telephoned the President today on another matter and
he brought up the subject of our telegram to him about
Ambassador Heath in Bulgaria. The President said that he
thought that the procedure outlined in the telegram was the
correct one; that he could see no other procedure to follow.
I reiterated that if our policy worked out (as we hoped it
would) we would leave the Ambassador there.
The President and I agreed that, while we thought it
important to react strongly to any campaign in the satellite
countries to humiliate us, we should not get in the position of
stating that the Bulgarian case is a precedent and that we will
recall our ambassadors from other countries under similar
circumstances, but that we should be able to take what we think
is the right course in each country.
DA
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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter,
By NLT- HC: NARS Dato 4.2976
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