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felt it could be helpful to us in the Berlin blockade issue if we could
do something about the price of wheat.
MR. ACHESON:
That comes up all the time, particularly when the people at the UN tele-
graph or send to Washington and say, "Go to your Embassy and twist the
arm of this, that and the other country." You always have to pay something
for doing that.
VOICE:
Sure.
MR. RUSK:
So it's very hard to work out these classical diplomatic trades with this
many combinations, you see, working on a situation of that sort.
MR. JESSUP:
It's exactly the same kind of thing you get in Congress with your various
pressure groups--get the sugar beet fellow to vote for one fellow, if
you 're going to vote for him on his tariff bill.
MR. RUSK:
Or you get Carroll Reese's vote in the Rules Committee on the Excess
Profits Tax in exchange for some votes for his resolution to investigate
foundations.
MR. ROSENAU:
Could I perhaps ask a very naive question, going back to this agenda busi-
ness. You mentioned arlier the sort of gentlemen's agreement with Romulo.
ARD
Would it be naive to say that perhaps this might be done with the French,
us
say, on the Tunisian issue, that they know we're talking this way but we
still have our European commitments?
MR. ACHESON:
That does not work.
MR. RUSK:
No; this is too important to the French. The substance is too important,
I think, in that case.
MR. JESSUP:
Their argument on that was-I think they were right-that on the North
African questions there really was an aroused opinion in France and that,
if we took a position,we would be jumped on in France and they could not
come to our defense against French opinion and that you would really get
into a first-class row. Your kind of thing was the famous historical
incident, wasn't it in 1920, when somebody from the Republican Committee
went around to the British Embassy and said, "Now, we've got a campaign
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