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February 17, 1954. anchowedria = is SERVICES MEMORANDUM BY DEAN ACHESON At this point in our discussions we might adopt a somewhat different method than the one we have been following -- a method which will emphasize analysis of problems and purposes rather more and narrative rather less. We have dealt with some personal relationships of mine, the organized aspect of dealings between the State Department and the White House, the account of the economic revival of Europe, the Atlantic alliance, and the development of organized strength and unity in that area, the attack in Korea and the response. All of these required a great deal of narrative of action as well as analysis and appraisal. We have dealt with the work to strengthen the center of our world position, without which efforts elsewhere could not be lasting or hope to be decisive. In the three meetings which remain -- according to the tentative plan -- we should first finish Korea to December, 1952, and finish the Western European story to the summer of 1952. There is then one other episode in which we brought other nations into organized relation with us in the coalition design -- the Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, This should not be too detailed. It might be useful to bring out these aspects: the deterioration in the Philippines in leadership after the deaths of Quezon and Roxas; the Huks; military, social, economic, and administrative incompetence. Our concern -- the Bell and other missions -- our determination that our show piece, the Philippines simply could not be allowed to disintegrate. Then the certainty that the occupa- tion of Japan was a wasting asset -- the task of liquidating