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OCR Page 1 of 1610/10/53 - Reel 4, track 2 - Page 1
MR. ACHESON: Everybody took advantage of this thing to sound off on his own
particular sphere of interest. I am looking at the transcript,
and Judge Key said that "everybody who has asked a question is
asking it for purposes of his own personal publicity, II and (Phil)
sort of blurted out what was the God's truth. Now here are the
first questions, which I just picked off the record as I read it:
Senator Kane said, "Why aren't Greece and Turkey in NATO?" Well,
of course that had nothing to do with what we were talking about;
Mr. Sykes of somewhere - I don't know where he came from - said,
"is the State Department prepared to back the Schuman plan?" Well,
whether
what difference did it make what/ the State Department was prepared
to back it - at any rate, that had nothing to do with
;
Senator Knowland said, "Did you agree in London to let China into
the UN?" (laughter) ; Congressman (Rich) said, "Why don't we have
a
disarnament conference instead of building up this great NATO
armament program? Now, this is what happens when you try to
build up what Simpson thought would be an intimate relation
branch
between the executive and the legislative part/of the Government
TRUMAN,
(confused, coughing)
5 ARCHIVES & "NATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN
DR. OPPENHEIMER:
that was the first time.
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MR. ACHESON:
It will happen in all times. It is, I am sure, destined to
confusion and frustration, because there is absolutely no connection
between responsibility and execution; there is just none at all.
Well, after this, and after many other many other experiences,
I
have completely changed my view about whether it's possible to
bring the executive and the legislative branches together, and I
think it is a waste of time, and I don't think anyone will get
anywhere in doing it. One of the most interesting things that I
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