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    "ocrText": "PAPERS OF DEAN ACHESON\nPRINCETON SEMINARS\nSynopsis\nThis series of synopses cover the\nmost important events discussed\nat the Princeton Seminars. They\ninclude excerpts from communiques\nand speeches.\nTRUMAN\n(Page 1)\nHARRY\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nACCORDS\nLIBRARY\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nU.S.\nSERVICE\"\nGOVERNMENT\n(Numbers in parentheses indicate page\nnumbers within each synopsis)\nSYNOPSIS A: THE ADOPTION OF THE MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM-JULY-OCT. 1949\nDebate and ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty (1)\nAn\nMAP proposed (1)\nCriticism of the proposal (1)\nHouse hearings:\nDGA testifies (2)\nJohnson testifies (2)\nBradley testifies (3)\nA revised proposal (3)\nSenate Hearings: DGA testifies (4)\nJohnson testifies (5)\nBradley testifies (5)\nHarriman testifies (6)\nThe Bill is amended and passed (6)\nThe bill is signed (6)\nA\nfootnote (7).\nSYNOPSIS B: BRITISH FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES-JULY-OCTOBER 1949\nCripp's July decision to postpone dollar purchases (1)\nCripps and\nSnyder confer (1)\nThe Commonwealth follows the UK's lead (1)\nDGA\ncomments (2) The US blames it on \"socialism\" (2) Anglo-American-\nCanadian talks (Sept. 7-12) (2) The devaluation of the pound (2).\nSYNOPSIS C: THE EMERGENCE OF WEST GERMANY AND THE GERMAN PROBLEM-AUG.-DEC. 1949\nThe August 1949 elections (1)\nDGA\ncomments\n(1)\nAdenauer indicates\ninterest in the Atlantic Treaty (1)\nDismantling policy attacked and\ndefended (2) Military government ends (2) The USSR protests (2)\nPre ssure to end the dismantling program (2)\nTripartite meeting in\nParis, Nov. 9-10 (3)\nDGA visits Germany (4)\nGerman rearmament (4)\nA protocol of agreements (5)\nThe dismantling program is modified (6)\nFrench views (6)\nAdenauer rąises the rearmament question (7)\nWest Germany joins ECA and the Ruhr Authority (8).\nSYNOPSIS D: THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATO-SEPTEMBER 1949 - JANUARY 1950\nFirst session of the North Atlantic Council (1)\nOrganizational\ndecisions (2)\nFirst session of the Defense Committee (2)\nFirst\nsession of the Military Committee (3)\nFurther steps (3)\nSecond\nsession of the Military Committee (3) Implementation of MAP (3)\nSecond session of the Defense Committee (4)\nMAP bilateral agreements\nnegotiated (4)\nDGA comments on the progress achieved (5)\nAgreement\non arms standardization (7)\nThird session of the North Atlantic\nCouncil (7) HST approves the defense proposals (7) Bilateral agree-\nments signed (7).\n50\nSYNOPSIS E: THE SITUATION JUST PRIOR TO KOREA, AP RIL-JUNE 1949\nThird Meeting of Defense Committee (1)\nBradley reviews progress (2)\nperales\nFourth meeting of Council in London (3)\nBalanced collective Forces (3)\nSchuman comments (4)\nDGA comments\n(5)\nOther observations (7)\nMAP for 1951 (8) DGA testifies (9) Johnson testifies (10)\nBradley testifies (10) Foreign Ministers discuss Germany (11)\nAdenauer comments (12)\nDGA comments (12)\nSchuman Plan announced (13)\nAdenauer comments (13)\nAttlee comments (13)\nDGA comments (14).\n(Page 2)\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nis\nTRUMAN\n(Numbers in parentheses indicate page\nHARRY\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nnumbers within each synopsis)\nACCORDS\nLIBRARY\nU.S.\nSERVICE\"\nSYNOPSIS F: THE IMPACT OF KOREA - JULY-SEPTEMBER 1950\nGOVERN NENT\nSpeedy Congressional action on MAP (1)\nAnother $ 4 billion\nrequested (1) HST statement (1) DGA testifies (2) Supplemental\naid approved (2) First meeting of Council Deputies (3) DGA com-\nments (3)\nBritish financial problems (3)\nRenewed French efforts (4)\nFrench views on organization (4)\nIncreased European defense\nappropriations (4) Adenauer asks for more US troops (5) and a role\nfor West Germany (5) French views (6) DGA comments (6) McCloy's\nactions and views (7)\nDGA comments (8)\nHST decides to increase US\nforces in Europe (8) Attlee makes similar announcement (8) New York\nmeetings of Foreign Ministers (8)\nNew York North Atlantic Council\nmeetings (9)\nDGA proposes \"a single package\"\n(9)\nFrench opposition (10)\nTalks of Foreign Ministers resumed (10)\nwith Germany as a primary\nconcern (10) Decisions on Germany (11) West German reaction (13)\nCouncil meets again and makes certain basic decisions (13).\nSYNOPSIS G: TOWARDS SHAPE - OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1950\nDiscussion of French financial problems in Washington (1)\nDebate on\nGermany's role continues (2)\nPleven Plan announced (2)\nDGA comments (3)\nGerman reaction (3)\nDGA comments (3)\nDefense Committee considers\nGerman dilemma (4) Military Committee reaches important decisions (4)\nHST and Attlee talks (5)\nCall for Supreme Commander (5)\nDeputies\nand Military Committee meet (5)\nBrussels meeting of Council and Defense\nCommittee (6) Eisenhower appointed (6) DGA offers a warning (6)\nNATO structure simplified (7)\nAgreement on Germany (7)\nAdenauer and\nHigh Commissioners meet (7)\nA summary by DGA (8).\n(Page 1)\n$\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nARCHIVESAN AND\nREDORDS\nU.S.\nLIBRARY\nSERVICE\"\n(Numbers in parentheses indicate\npage numbers within each syhopsis)\nGOVERNMENT\nSYNOPSIS H: \"THE GREAT DEBATE\"AND TROOPS TO EUROPE - December 1950 - April 1951\nHoover begins the debate (1) DGA replies (1) Dulles contributes (2)\nTaft speaks out (3) Other participants (5) Eisenhower's views (6)\nTaft again (7) Hoover again (7) Dewey's views (8) House Repub-\nlicans sign a \"declaration of policy (8)\nSenate hearings - Marshall\ntestifies (8)\nTaft has doubts (10)\nDGA testifies (10)\nBradley\ntestifies (10)\nOthers testify (11)\nLegislative developments (11)\nProvisions of the resolution (13)\nHST comments (14)\nSYNOPSIS I: MISCELLANEOUS DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE - January - June 1951\nAdenauer talks about Germany's role (1)\nAllied and West German\nexperts explore possibilities (1) The Soviet Union protests (1)\nFrench invitations to European Army conference (2)\nDGA strongly\nsupports the conference (2) The French proposal (3)\nFrench con-\ncessions (4) The British position (4) Adenauer rejects neutral-\nism (5) As does DGA (5) Byroade speaks (5) The Occupation\nStatute is revised and modified (5)\nRelaxation of industrial\ncontrols (7)\nWork begins to end the state of war (7)\nDevelopments\nwithin NATO (7) Reorganization of administrative machinery (7)\nConsideration of a role for Greece and Turkey (8)\nMiscellaneous\ndevelopments (8) The Saar question (8) The raw materials problem\n(9)\nFrench election results (9) Meetings of deputies end (9)\nSYNOPSIS J: THE ADOPTION OF A UNIFIED FOREIGN AID PROGRAM - May - October 1951\nHST requests $8.5 billion (1)\nHouse hearings DGA testified (1)\nMarshall testifies (2) Senate hearings - DGA testifies (3)\nEfforts to reduce expenditures (3)\nHouse action (4)\nSenate\naction (4)\nCongress approves, HST signs (6)\nAppropriations bill\npassed (6).\nSYNOPSIS K: DEVELOPING A EUROPEAN ARMY AND A ROLE FOR WEST GERMANY - July 1951 -\nFebruary 1952\nEisenhower calls for the integration of Europe (1)\nMcCloy indicates\nthe US position (2)\nDifferences between the Petersberg and Paris\ndeliberations (2)\nPoints of agreement and disagreement at Paris (2)\nDGA speaks of \"a very great step forward\" (3)\nEnding the state\nof war with Germany (3)\nNotes of optimism sounded\n(4)\nThree-power\ntalks in Washington (4)\nDecisions on Germany (4)\nAdenauer comments\n(5)\nEDC welcomed (5)\nBlaboration of the French position (6)\nWork begins on contractual agreements with Germany (6)\nAreas of\ndisagreement (6)\nAdenauer meets with Foreign Ministers in Paris (7)\nDGA comments (7)\nResults of Paris talks outlined (8)\nAdenauer\ncomments (9)\nSchumacher's position (9)\nProgress Report on\nEuropean Army Conference (10)\nSchuman comments (10)\nSize of\nTRUMAN\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nCORDS\nLIBRARY\nU.S.\n0\nSERVICE\"\n(Page 2)\nGOVERNMENT\nEuropean army agreed upon (10)\nChurchill examines the situation (11)\nDeliberations in Strasbourg (12)\nChurchill and Pleven issue a com-\nmunique (13) Further efforts to reconcile European army differences\n(14)\nHST - Churchill talks (15)\nTisenhower urges political unity\n(15)\nDGA comments (16) West German experts discuss the German\nrole (16)\nPosition of German Social Democrats (17) EDC\nforeign\nministers meet again (17) Germans express doubts over French actions\nin the Saar (18) Eden and Schuman confer (18) Schumacher and\nAdenauer comment (18) EDC debated in England (19) EDC debated\nin Bundestag (19)\nEDC debated in French Assembly (20)\nAdenauer\nmeets with Foreign Ministers in London (21) TCC estimate of German\ncontribution (22) Adenauer comments (23) Decisions at Lisbon\nrelative to EDC and West Germany (23)\nDGA summarizes (25).\nSYNOPSIS L: OTTAWA TO LISBON DEVELOPING THE STRENGTH OF NATO - September 1951 - -\nFebruary 1952\nBackground of the Ottawa meeting (1)\nItems listed for discussion (1)\nVan Zeeland comments on the financial problem (2)\nas does St.\nLaurent (2)\nEisenhower asks for recruitment speed-up (2)\nDGA's\nefforts (3)\nTCC established (3)\nAgreement on \"infrastructure\"\nprogram (4)\nCommittee on the North Atlantic Community established\n(5)\nSnyder comments (5)\nas does Gaitskell(5)\nHarriman appointed\nto\nthe\nTCC (5) The admission of Greece and Turkey proposed (6)\nDGA summarizes the work at Ottawa (6)\nTCC meets\nhears Eisenhower\n(8)\nTCC establishes an executive bureau (8) Greece and Turkey\ninvited to join NATO (8)\nTalks between HST and Tisenhower (9)\nNATO Council meets in Rome (10)\nHarriman's report (11)\nEisen-\nhower's presentation (11)\nDGA summarizes the work at Rome (11)\nThe report of the Three Wise Men (12)\nDGA comments (14)\nGreece\nand Turkey join NATO (14)\nNATO Council meets in Lisbon (14)\nDGA's opening address (15)\nSummary of the final TCC report (15)\nFinal Communique of the Lisbon sessions (18)\nLovett and Eden\ncomment (20)\nDGA summarizes the work at Lisbon (20)\nSYNOPSIS M: DEVELOPMENTS SUBSEQUENT TO LISBON - March - June 1952\n1. The Mutual Security Program\nHST requests $7.9 billion for the Mutual Security Program (1)\nHarriman and DGA testify (2)\nOthers testify (3)\nCommittee and\nfloor action (4)\n$6.4 billion authorized by Congress (6)\n2. EDC Negotiations\nThe British position on EDC (7)\nDGA, Eden, Schuman comment (8)\nDraft treaty for EDC approved by NAC and initialed by participants\n(9)\nTalks between the British and French (9)\nThe French Cabinet\nbalks (10) EDC treaty signed (10) Military arrangements (10)\nFinancial arrangements (11)\nGeneral arrangements (11)\nProtocols\nsigned (11)\nDGA comments (11)\n3. Negotiations on Contractual Agreement with Western Germany\nDebate and negotiations of contractual agreements continues (12)\nContractual agreements signed and summarized (14)\nA joint statement\non reparations (16)\nDGA comments (17)\nContractual Agreements and\nNATO protocol submitted to the Senate (17)\nDGA testifies (18)\nRatification by the Senate (19)\nA summary of the latter half of\n1952 (19).\nSee also separte synopsis whan"
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