Memorandum from Lucius D. Battle to Edward G. Miller

ARCHIVES 'HATIONAL RECORDS AND . SERVICE* the S - Mr. Battle June 19, 1952 ARA - Mr. Miller You have received from Mr. Kidder a zemorandum dated June 19 concerning Ambassador Johnson's suggestions with regard to the various speeches which the Secretary will have to give while he is in Brazil. Under this schedule, the two major speeches, namely at the Foreign Office on July 3 and at the visit to Congress, will be prepared. In addition we are working on prepared statements for arrival and departure at the three places where the Secretary will stop in Brazil. For the press conferences at Rio and Sao Paulo there will be a briefing book prepared by the Inbassy which we hope will await the Secretary in Recife. Also there will be an opportunity to brief the Secretary further for his press con- ferences at the lunch on July 3. Aside from the two lunches at the Chambers of Commerce at Rio and Sao Paulo, there will be only informal toasts at the dinner given by the mayor of Rio and at the lunch at Sao Paulo plus a speech at the dinner at Sao Paulo which is being prepared in Rio and which we will have time to work on after our arrival there. with regard to the lunches at Rio and Sao Paulo, it seens to me that even though these are on the record and though there will be Brazilians present it would be far better from every standpoint for these speeches to be given by the Secretary exteaporaneously. Iven though the audiences will include some Brazilians, these will be entirely Brazilians who are friendly to the U.S. and mostly those who have worked with American com- panies. The great bulk of the audiences will be Americans most of whom will not have had an opportunity of listening to an important American personage in public life. It seens to me that on the basis of the material included in the Secretary's briefing book, he could make an informal talk of about 20 or 25 minutês duration which in the case of each lunch (since there will be little if any overlapping audiences) would cover the following points: (1) Both audiences (Rio and Sao Paulo) will be anxious to hear direct from the Secretary his appraisal of world conditions including such points ast (a) The prospects of an all-out war; (b) the prospects for a solution in Korea; (c) the relative arned strength DECLASSIFIED E.O.