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Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Paul Nitze
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DECLASSI IFIED
E. O. H1612, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
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THE SECRETARY
Dep: of State latter,
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July 12, 1950
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Dear Paul:
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I put down the following thoughts to clarify/my own mind
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recurrent pattern of discussion that the 9:30 meetings have,
and to invite correction where it may be needed.
1. Our future course in Korea.
a) The immediate future.
As I see it, we have got to put in the force
necessary to reoccupy to the 38th. All seem agreed
on this so long as the Chinexe and the Soviets do
not officially come in. This means, I suppose, that
if we are forced out, we have to come in again as
quickly as possible.
If the Chinese come in, it seems to me that the
same is true. As to widening the theater of opera-
tions by attacks ón Chinese territory generally, -
as against attacks on forces coming in - I should
think this unwise as constituting an invitation to
the Russians to join the Chinese under their treaty.
If the Soviets come in, I should think that we
still have to fight it out in Korea unless and until
the war becomes general. At that point general
military judgment might well be different.
I see a lot of objections to these conclusions.
But I do not see that they add up to a possible alternative.
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