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OCR Page 1 of 217/23/53 - Wire 3, P. 1
Q.
I
think some of them who were reading that really felt it was all around the corner,
and some of the bitterness that came out of it was related to that feeling.
TRUMAN
Q. That whole problem of how far the Department in its own thinking had gone beyond
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recognition is a very trickyone because there was, as I said last night, and I think
CONTROLLY
this is not without some relevance. There was a lot of the people who were in intellectual
and
sympa.thy and atunement with the people in the Department--] don't mean leftists--]
mean professors and people felt that the traditional recognition doctrine is if the guys
in
fact are in control, you recognize, and not being on the desk and in the Department,
they were not--certainly it is true of me anyway--as aware of the difficulty of recognizing
Consul
somebody who is in fact got your Council General locked up--as you apparently feel when
Consul
you are dealing with a. locked up Council General. So that there was, and I am sure Phil
will agree, a wide sentiment that the Department would like to do this only they are having
trouble.
Q. Well, I can recall that personally a sort of feeling of impatience with the people who
said
you
want
to
recognize
because
you
are
in
favor
of
them,
and
try
to
explore
the
historical
basis- I think we did that in that Executive Session. Recognition has nothing to do with
approval, and therefore it became a question of advantage or policy, or whether you want
to
follow
the President, or whether there were policy reasons for not following the Presi-
dent.
I
think that occasionally the discusssion of the historic policy and what recognition
meant was taken as as indication that we were going to follow that policy and recognize.
Q. Of course, the non-recognition policy had had a try-out since back in the 120s
(? Newness)
Q. Now, you are saying that allssort of dueness of recognition have, I think, agreed
measure
upon
that policy non-recognition was an instance, and the more experience we had with it,
the more people reached this conclusion. But to say this, as Phil suggests, was to sound
as if you meant we were about to do this.
Q. Well, the Research Branch got together a study of the recognition policy. I can remember
Noble discussing it from time to time, saying its policy objection is "don't bring it out
now' because it will be a issumed that the statement of that means that you are trying to
prepare the American peoplefor recognition, and you will be accused of having made up
your
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