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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 1, Track 18- Page 2\nI\nattacks on well fortified positions. In a meeting which Ridgeway had\nworked out-before it became SCAP, I think--he worked out a system of\nconcentrated fire and artillery at various depths which produced tremen-\ndous havoc in support of our air attack. Now, it was in this period-\nit went from April, as I recall it, to sometime in June--that two things\noccurred. One was some conversations which George Kennan held, and the\nother was an attempt which was made through Allen Kirk to form some sort\nof contact with the Chinese. As to that latter, I don't remember very\nwell about it except that it did occur, or he attempted to do it; and\nperhaps somebody else here-1-Dean Rusk, maybe\nDR. OPPENHEIMER: That was when he was in Moscow--that was when he was in Moscow?\nMR. ACHESON:\nYes, that was when he was in Moscow. But I think the first one that\nwe might talk about is the conversation or conversations which George\nhad with Mal ik. I think the best way to get that is for George to tell\nit. We ought to note on the record that this-all of thise-has not been\nGOVER 3\nmade public in any way and that this should be held very closely until\nthe whole Korea matter has calmed down or until the documents in this\nfield have been released.\nMR. KENNAN:\nI must say that I am not well prepared to talk about this because I\nkept\nno records of my own with regard to what happened, and the details of it\nare not clear in my memory. I did make memoranda and turned them in;\nbut I don't know where they are in the Government and I kept no copies\nof them. What I can recollect about it is simply this. If my memory\nis correct, I was down in Washington in May and talked at that time with\nMatthews and some of the others about this questi on of a Korean truce.\nI told them that I thought that the Soviets must want a truce, and if\nthere were only S ome way in which one could approach them and make sure\nof that, perhaps something could be done. And I told Matthews that if\nI could be of any help to him in that way, I would be glad to do so."
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