Memorandum of Conversation at the National Security Council Meeting

+ TION September 3, 1952 264 - << NSC Meeting Council Action on NSC 135/1 At the Council meeting this afternoon, the President directed the approval of the recommendations in NSC, (135/1 and the creation of an ad hoc group composed of State, Defense and DMS to carry out the studies recommended in Paragraph 9 (a) of the paper. The paper itself was referred back to the Senior Staff for certain editorial changes and for an addition referred to below. I left with Mr. Lovett and Mr. Lay copies of the proposed directive which Mr. Lay will go over and issue in due course if upon study Mr. Lovett through Mr. Noyes finds no objection to the wording. I informed Mr. Lay that Mr. Harriman agreed. In regard to substance, the NSRB view put forward by Mr. Gorrie and answered by Mr. Lovett resulted in no action. Mr. Gorrie became satisfied that everything was being done which could reasonably be expected along the lines of his request. Some of the matters to which Defense will direct the attention of the Senior Staff, as mentioned by Mr. Lovett, were as follows: Paragraph 1 - Reference to the fundamental purpose, as stated in 68, and the three specifications (a), (b) and (c) were criticized because they ought to indicate that a primary objective of U.S. policy was the maintenance of peace. The next passage mentioned was the last paragraph of 9(b). Mr. Lovett pointed out that the object of the draftsman was commendable but the statement as written seemed somewhat absurd. The last paragraph mentioned by Mr. Lovett was Paragraph 15, which to him carried the connotation that we regretted the inability to fix the date for the opening of the preventive war. Defense may have other suggestions also. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- HC PROJECT NLT NARS, 79-15 Date 6.6.60 -