Memorandum of Conversation at the National Security Council Meeting

TOP 321 SECURITY INFORMATION December 19, 1951 NSC MEETING NSC 118/1 was adopted with the following changes: All the changes proposed by the Senior Staff in its memoran- dum of December 19, 1951. In regard to Paragraph 2 a (5) on page 4 - first, it was agreed to be inserted in the minutes that this paragraph was a statement of policy and was not meant to prescribe the language of the warning. The words "in any event" in the second sentence were stricken out and the words "if agreement cannot be reached" inserted. itt the end of the sentence, the words "or in the methods of warfare employed" were stricken out. In the last sentence, the heads of" were stricken out. In paragraph 2 b (1) on page 5, the proposed amendment by the JCS was not made. However, it was agreed that there should be a note in the minutes to the effect that the Council understood that the enlargement of the war contemplated in Paragraph b might call for increased military forces beyond those presently contem- plated. In Paragraph 2 b - 2, 3 and 4, the two notes for the minutes which I proposed were adopted. I forgot to give Mr. Lay copies of these notes. The State-Defense disagreement about Article 6 was not resolved, but these two proposals were returned to the Senior Staff with the instruction that they should get from CIA an analysis of the traffic into and out of China for the purpose of making a further report as to whether the proposed embargo had any practical importance. Mr. Lovett's view was that this might be controlling. E NATIONAL AND TRUMAN DECLASSIFIED ARCHIVES SERVICE" URDS July Authority NLT- 77.36 By HC NLT Date 1-19-7P INFORMATION