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    "ocrText": "7/16/33 - 22\ninmediately, all papers coming to the Central Secretariate on these same subjects\nbe routed through the Undersecretary, so that his current knowledge may be as\nextensive as possible. Nou, to share his thoughts on this. Hore is a list from\nJanuary 26 to 20. These are matters which I have discussed: The North Atlantei\nTreaty ten times; Germany ten times; the Military Assistance Program eight times;\nAid Programs, that is the European Recovery Programa, eight times; Palestine Truce\nNegociations five times; China five times; Creece four; Japan four; reorganization\nof the Department three times; Point Four Program three times; the Austrian Peace\nTreaty three times; Indonesia three times; and the problem of the Ttalian Colonies\nthree times. Nou, other subjects covered are the statements of Kingsbury Smith,\nand the Stalin exchange, the Mindzenty case, Consular interventions, Soviet pressure\non Irm. All these-were two conferences. And there are some other minor things\nsuch as the Gubitchev case, and our whole recognition policy - what it meant to\nrecognize a country - relations with Jugoslavia. But that first group are the ones\nwhich we tried to use for an expository purpose. Now there is, and I'll come to it\nlater but not mention it nou, an off-the-record press conference on May 18. Now\nthat day I had a large conference. I was leaving neort day but one for Paris for\nthe C.F.M. I had a large press conference with everyone, foreign and U.S. people\nin. And then some members of the United States press asked me to talk to them more\nfrankly than I could tall: to the world press, and I had an off=the-record conference\nwith them which lays out in a very complete and utterly frank way the situation as\nwe saw it. I think I will read that to you when we come to that point, because it's\nquite an unusual document, and de perhaps modified in some way what I was saying\nabout not trusting these people at all. Now, this was a different situation,\nbecause I vented them to use what I was going to tell them when the time came, but\nnot to use it then as coming from mo. And there you have to tako a risk that they\nvill breach this. Now, the nexco thing that I was going to tall about is the\npreparatory work for the Conference of Foreign Ministers. Here, after a minute or\nso, I'd like to ask Paul and Phil to pick this up, because my recollection here is"
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