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REEL 3 - 7/22/53 - Page28 KR) MR. ACHESON: en attempt to get everybody together, inside, outside the Department, in both parties, into an appraisal of where we go from here on out, and stop talking about who ought to have done something differently. That is a long discussion. Then, on the 26th, I had an off-the-record that meeting with the press in the evening, another one of those we have talked about before: John Hightower, John Reichman, and a. whole list, very much the same people we ha ve talked of (and Evis Corl McCartel is in it ), and rather more people than were in the last one; but of the a lot same general character. And we talked/about many things. These notes wer made afterwards by White; we talked about China; and then to ADMIN, A TRUMAN we get into this question of aid, and I am pointing out to them that U.S. GOVE any they have got to get a much clearer idea in their minds as to what the organization is that they want to aid, and I point out what it is that is on Formosa, and what the nature of that Government and that outfit are, and then point out that the, what had happened on the mainland is that the President has been left--Lee is alone, without a government, without funds, without an organization of any sort- the legislature couldn't make up its mind what it was going to do : it was finally decided that they should go to Chung-King; at that time when went to Chung-Khing, and a hundred went to Formasa, ten of them

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