Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "290018484",
    "label": "Memorandum from George Elsey to President Harry S. Truman, Notes of First Meeting with Prime Minister Rene Pleven",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/290018484"
}

{
    "id": "290018484",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/290018484",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Memorandum from George Elsey to President Harry S. Truman, Notes of First Meeting with Prime Minister Rene Pleven",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/290018484",
    "collections": [
        "President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration)",
        "Subject Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750354/750354-03-001.tif",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750354/750354-03-001.tif",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750354/750354-03-001.tif",
    "imageCount": 38,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/290018484",
    "naId": 290018484,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "day": 30,
            "logicalDate": "1951-01-30",
            "month": 1,
            "year": 1951
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 33,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-psf/602191/750354/750354-03-033.tif",
    "mediaId": "191fb431b1085d96",
    "ocrText": "- 31 -\nTOP Store\nalter his tactics drastically.\nMr. Acheson asked if the French could give the exact\nsums they wanted by Tuesday morning, and also give the purposes\nfor which the money was wanted.\nMr. Pleven and Ambassador Bonnet agreed to do this.\nGeneral Marshall wanted to know if the aircraft carrier\n(Langley) which the United States had turned over recently to\nFrance could be used in Indo-China if the restrictions we had\nplaced on its use were removed. In this present emergency, we might\nremove those restrictions if the French thought that the carrier\ncould be used, with the equipment it had, to advantage in Indo-China.\nThe Prime Minis ter said he would like to turn to the\nbroad question of the general situation in Asia which he had re-\nferred to at the beginning of the meeting. He had suggested that\nit would be good to have a high-level consultative body, a body\nwhich could advise France on strategy in the Far East. He believed\nvery strongly, he went on, that we are faced with the expansion of\ncommunism throughout Southeast Asia. There were not just a lot of\nlocal situations, but one big one. His government did not know\nwhether that view of theirs was correct. He thought it was, and\nTOP SECRET\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES\nRECORDS\nADMIN\nGOVERNMENT"
}