Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Senator Ernest McFarland

415 GECRET "NATIONAL AND 5 SERVICE's 128 cont May 14, 1951 Senator MacFarland ealled Mr. Acheson this afternoon regarding a request from Cosmopolitan Magazine for statements from a number of Senators as to how we can assure peace in our time. The Senator was concerned lest the six point proposal which he was going to offer would embarrass the President, to whom he had submitted a similar proposal some time ago. The Senator thought the President might be considering issuing a statement along the same lines. Mr. Acheson assured the Senator he did not believe the President intended to issue a statement of this nature. A few minutes later the Senator called the Secretary back and read him the statement he proposed to submit. It included six points, the substance of which is below: 1) Denounce all aggression as a crime 2) End the arms race by establishing a truce in the rearmament process of the Soviet Union and the anti-Soviet nations with gradual disarmament 3) Removal of all barriers to the free flow of communi- cations and transmission of news, the exchange of ideas and travel among nations. 4) Operation of all atomic plants under international supervision in an effort to lift the standard of living of all peoples of the world. 5) Dissolve all international subversive organizations e) The permanent disarmament and neutralization of Germany and Japan under the supervision of the UN with a guarantee to the citizens of those countries that they will be free to elect their own government by secret ballot. The Secretary told the Benator that he thought points 2 and 6 would give us quite a lot of trouble. He said that if we had DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, A 5-2-76 1973 By NLT- itc NARS Data 6-252 SBORE#