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VOICE:
It is in your speech. You sai d European conntries must work this
out for themselves.
VOICE:
I put down as a condition that I - my recollection is it said, "If this
is going to be any good, the Europpans have got to develop it themselves.
VOICE:
Yes, but that is the thing he put in himself, after George Kennan had
this idea, and we had several drafts, and he didn't like any of them.
He wrote that in longhand in Cambridge. (That is what we did not have,
and we had this thing released.)
VOICE:
But your speech had in something. (indistinct). Dean, didn't your
(Mr. Jessup?)
speech have in something about selectivity, in rather broad general terms?
MR. ACHESON:
Yes.
VOICE:
That speech I did work on with - what was his name, Johnson? - Joe Jones.
Joe and I worked on a couple of drafts of that for you. (And you took
Us.
and
the drafts we had prepared for you.)
MR. ACHESON:
That's right. There was this idea that you couldn't just fire a broad
shot against the world: you had to select what you could do and what
you couldn't do.
VOICE:
The actual invitations, though, were sent out by the British and the
French, weren't they? You remember, that meeting in Paris?
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