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2/13/54, Reel 2, Track 1, Page 1 MR. JOHNSON: I was then up in Williamstown, and we got an edition of the New York Times that went to bed about 10:30 or 11:00 Saturday night, and wasn't until Monday saying morning that I read in the papers that the Security Council had met to resist that the attack, I knew about the attack toz. I hadn't turned on a radio That edition of the New York paper never carried it at all. The press must heve been [completely faded? MR. ACHESON: My notes say here that it was about 10:30 p.m. that Jack Hickerson called me up with this report and this recommendation. I told him to go ahead and TRUSTAN alert Gross and to find out where the other members of the Security Council ACCHANGES P which were, and take the steps thet were necessary to call them together on Sunday U.S. any COVE and that I would telephone the President and tell him about this and if he agreed with it, all was well, we'd go right ahead; if the President had any different idea, it would be perfectly possible to change what he was doing. But in the meantime, to proceed at once; that there wasn't time to be lost on this. At this time Louie Johnson and General Bradley were away; they had been to Kokyo and were on their way back from Tokyo. I called the President, who was in Independence at his home, and told him what had happened, and told him what I had authorized Hickerson to do. The Bresident approved that. He asked whether he should get in his plane and fly back to Washington right away, and I advised him that he should not do that; I thought that it wasn't advisable to take the risks of a night flight; he wouldn' accomplish anything by getting back early in the morning. But I did tell him that with Mr. Johnson away and General Bradley away, it would be useful if I could have it said at the Pentagon that I had talked with the President and we were proceeding to call the Security Council together and that the President wanted recommenda- tions from the defense people and the State Department people sometime on inthemmergency 1?) Sunday and that I was authorized to say that the President had authorized me to do that. So I called back and reported all of this to