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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Italy Alberto Tarchiani, and Homer Byington, Jr.
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DEPARTMENT
STATE
417
Memorandum of Conversation
134
THEN
ARCHIVES AND
DATE:
. RECORDS
May 18,1951
SUBJECT:
Admission of Greece and Turkey into the NATO
PARTICIPANTS:
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The Italian Ambassador
The Secretary of State
Mr. Byington, W&
COPIES TO:
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EUR
NEA
S/ISA
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American Embassy, Rome
u.s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
16-61120-1
During the course of the conversation, Ambassador Tarchiani said that
his government felt that the best solution with regard to the desire of
Greece and Turkey for a security arrangement was their admission as full
members into the NATO. He was gratified to find that the United States
Government's views were along the same lines. He said that it seemed to
him any alternative arrangement such as an Eastern Mediterranean Pact
became far too complicated in terms of vho was to be in it to make any
practicable result obtainable. Both Greece and Turkey were serious
peoples and with good armies and the simplest solution seemed to him
to take them into the family as soon as possible. He certainly thought
it was most undesirable to have a neutral Turkey in the present world
situation.
I said that I thought the publicity on this subject had been most
unfortunate. We had wished to consult with the British and French and
the Italians as well as the other members of the NATO informally and
confidentially on this matter and that it had not been helped by the
publicity which had been created. I said that I agreed with his views,
but that further conversations would take place among the Council of
Deputies.
DECLASSIFIED
SUR:WE:HMByington,Jr.:fa
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, AB
By NLT. HC , NARS Date 6.75.66
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