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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Stuart, John Leighton, 1876-1962
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-1974
Baruch, Herman Benjamin, 1872-1953
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
#
WASHINGTON
June 10, 1949
C
R
T
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
MILITARY AID
Our Ambassador in The Hague has added his concurrence
PROGRAM
in the views expressed by Douglas and Harriman on the
bad effects that any delay in the passage of military
aid legislation would have in Europe. Our Ambassador believes that if
the Dutch fail to receive early assurances that military aid will be
forthcoming, this would reinforce the arguments of those who believe
that the Netherlands cannot possibly establish an adequate modern de-
fense system and should, therefore, for economic and fiscal reasons
adopt a minimum defense program. Our Ambassador in Paris, in expressing
his concurrence in the views of Douglas and Harriman, says that, in the
absence of military assistance, the French will regard the Atlantic Pact
as incomplete and will be increasingly open to the Communist whispering
campaign to the effect that the pact is a dangerous piece of paper in
that it is provocative to the Soviets without furnishing the means to
discourage or resist their possible reaction to such provodation.
CHINA
The Communist head of the Aliens Affairs Bureau in
Nanking has informed Ambassador Stuart's secretary that
in order to accomplish the Communist goal of achieving Chinese economic
recovery, the civil war must be ended and American aid, which will be
decisive, must be received.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979
By NLT- HL NARS, Date 11-13-80