Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
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WHITE: 45
INCOMING TELEGRAM
Department of State
DTG 0117347
TELEGRAPH BRANCH
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TOP SECRET SECUR TTV INFORMAT
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Rec'd:
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December 1, 1951
FROM: Rome
6:43 a.m.
Info
TO:
Secretary of State
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NO: ACTEL 28, November 30, 10 p.m.
FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM THE SECRETARY.
Dear Mr. President:
I am most grateful for your kind note of encouragement.
It may be helpful to you to have some impressions from me
at the end of the NATO meeting at Rome. The first is that
the big problems remain unsolved and will need the most
energetic work over the next 60 days, if we are to solve
them.
and
In the international field we are experiencing what the pro-
ARCHCORON
duction people call slippages. Three months ago we hoped
that the Ottawa meeting would start the wheels moving for
decisions at this Rome meeting on a defense program geared
to economic capacity and upon the integration of Germany,
both into the Western community of free nations and into
the West defensive organization. But as you know, it be -
came clear before this meeting, that the complexity of the
German problem and the current stage of Harriman's work in
the temporary council committee meant that the Rome meeting
would have to be a spur to get decisions by the end of January.
Realization that the session could not reach important de -
cisions affected the atmosphere in which the meeting was
held. There was definite lessening of enthusiasm and interest.
Another depressing factor was the knowledge that after
Harriman's report, governments will have to decide definitely
on the precise degree of military economic and financial
effort to be made in the next years In Europe, this decision
is hard because of low standards of living and, in many cases
minute Parliamentary majorities. In France, the slender
majority consists of a weak coalition of parties which do
not see eye-to-eye on many key issues. The Communist parties
remain strong in France and Italy and proclaim daily that
the defense effort is leading to runaway inflation and economic
chaos.
In this situation, our goals for this meeting were: :
1. Convince the various nations to take the necessary steps
to achieve
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