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MR. ACHESON: The line which we followed before gave promise to be far too
complicated to go through with. That was, to take a period of time,
and exhaust all the things which happened in that particular period.
So at the meeting which we had in Washington, we thought that we
would take certain subjects, and then trace those through, not
trying to record the history of everything that happened in regard
to each one of these points, but the main things in which we had
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some part: why we did what we did, what the circumstances vere,
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what alternatives were considered, and why they were adopted. But
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we also found, in the earlier records, that when two people talk
at the same time, utter confusion happens on the recording, and
nobody gets anything. I think it is desirable to have as much
interruption as possible, and have everybody take a large part of
the load, but if a person will interrupt, just say "Harriman," or
"Nitze," and then go ahead, and the others will give him a chance
to finish before they break in, it will be very much more successful.
Now, what I thought I would start off with in these sessions we have
this time, and perhaps next month also, is the Military Assistance
Program, and how that worked into the development of NATO and the
unified force and command in Europe, and what the various considera-
tions were that had to do with that. And when I was working on it,
I came across this paragraph, which amused me very much, and explained
a good deal more than I have now explained to you. I was reading
the other night the Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand, and in the
early part of the book he says, "A work on any given subject, confined
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