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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
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alert Gross and to find out where the other members of the Security Council
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were, and take the steps thet were necessary to call them together on Sunday
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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
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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
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