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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Senator John Foster Dulles
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E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
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July 26, 1949
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MEMORANDUN OF CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR DULLES
Senator Dulles called at his request. He said that
he wished to talk about MAP and that that he was reflect-
ing Senator Vandenberg's views as well as his own.
He thought that in order to put MAP through at this
session it would be necessary for the Administration to
accept what he called an interim program on a less ambi-
tious basis. He divided his views into two main parts:
One the practical or political considerations; the other
the merits of the program.
As to the first, he thenght that the Administration
did not have a sufficiently reliable Democratic majority
to put the bill through in its present form. He thought
that the Republicans would be almost solidly against it
and there would many Democratic defections. Such a
result, he thought, would be disastrous in its farreaching
implications as breaking up the non-partisan approach to
foreign policy. It would be hard to reconstruct the non-
partisan group on future issues. He conceded that many
members of the Senate had made up their minds on the bill
without a hearing, on account of the debate on the Treaty.
He thought that from the political point of view, in
addition to opposition on the merits which grew out of
many factors - (a) the isolationists' dislike of assist-
ing European countries, (b) the argument that it was
futile any way, (c) the argument that we ought to go
into the Pact machinery, (d) the amount - there WRS another
tactical obstacle. This was that we were in a bad posi-
tion to argue that thore was great urgency or an emergency
situation; because, al though the President had discussed
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