Letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
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- SECURITY INFORMATION
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Dear Mr. Presidents
After the first ten days of this session of the General Assembly,
I think it is fair to report that things are moving for us perhaps
better than we might have expected. This is, as you know, a tough
session for us, because we are caught in the middle on most of the
colonial issues, but we have done our best to make a virtue out of
our predicament.
The organizational phase of this session has gone off more quietly
and smoothly than usual. Partly, this reflects a gingery feeling
about our elections. And partly, this may be because the Russians
have so far been operating under wraps. They have gone through a
restrained rehash of their charges from previous years, but they have
acted either with hesitancy or restraint. They have clearly not yet
shown their full hand.
As we anticipated from our analysis of the Communist Party
Congress in Moscov and related actions, the Russians are doing their
best to isolate us from our allies, and to play upon all the differences
in the non-Communist world. We have been interested to see how they
would meet the dilenma of trying to woo the British and French away
from us, and at the same time appeal to the people of the colonial
areas. It looks as if they have decided to stress the latter, and let
the former go for another time. They have lumped the British and
French together with us as the Atlantic varmongers, and have made
strenuous appeals, both on the floor, and in the lobbies, to the Arab-
Asian bloc.
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
It appears
Dept. of State letter, <0343
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By NLT- HC , NARS Date 11.29.76
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