Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman

435 INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State blopten TELEGRAPH BRANCH 26-22-X IOF SECRET SECURITY ENFORMA TION Action Control: 9773 to Rec'd: November 20, 1951 SS FROM: Paris RECORES 5:52 p.m. Info SERVICE" TO: Secretary of State DCR usta NO: ACTEL 17, November 20, 9 DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 PRIORITY. State Dept. Guidelines NLT 8324 March 6, 1982 By We NLT, Date FOR THE PRESIDENT AND ACTING SECRETARY 6-29-ty Dear Mr. o President: My talks with Eden on Iran and also those with Harriman and Lovett and the French on the French financial crisis have been reported to you. The latter is most critical and will, I fear, be disastrous to your great design in Europe if our govt cannot be in a position to act clarity and decisiveness. But there is nothing to put to you at the moment. Further work here first is necessary. Today I have to turn from the General Assembly work back again to the mtgs with Eden, Schuman and Adenauer and then to the Rome session of NATO. It is a good moment to give you a few impressions of developments here The soundness of your judgment a year ago in proposing consolidation of the two armaments commissions and this year in launching the disarnament proposais has been fully vindicated by the events here. It wid be hard to overstate the effect on policy both in and outside the Assembly of the three-power proposal, youx speech and its elaboration here. The political leadership of the US in this Assembly is now (rpt now) firmly established, thanks largely to this pro- posal Advance speculation, rumors, and leaks caused the Assembly to open on a note of false optimism and, as a consequence, there was a disappointed slump during the first few days of the debate, precipitated particularly by Vyshinsky's bitter and cynical attack. The French press, for example, broke out in a brief rash of piague on both your houses" reaction. This phase passed quickly and we are now (rpt now) enjoying a steady advance in political support and general public reaction. There was an initial tendency to regard the three-power proposals suspiciously as a propaganda gesture; but as they have been REPRODUCTION OF THIS TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED