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OCR Page 1 of 142/13/54, Reel 3, T1 k 2,
MR. ACHESON:
On the 28th of September, I got a message from the President asking me to come
back to Washington. I came back and got there the night of the 28th. On the
and after the Cabinet meeting,
morning of the 29th I went to a Cabinet meeting, President, General
Marshall and I went to the Blair House --- I think there was an NSC meeting
after the Cabinet meeting, but after that we went to the Blair House where
we had lunch together. After lunch General Marshall produced a large map of
Korea -- after we'd had lunch, and it was cleared away, and everybody had left.
He had some officer with whim whom I don't recall. He produced this large
map of Korea on which were the troop dispositions, and gave a report of the
situation. He reported that the North Korean army was dissolved -- it was in
complete rout -- and the question was, what should General MacArthur be directed
p//to to do. I think he toldus that on the 27th a tentative directive or
atentative ne(?)
a directive had been sent to MacArthur for his comment or opinion on it.
KEUNDAN
And he now laid this before the President for discussion by us. As I recall
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it, and I think this is borne oulb by General Collins testimony before the
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MacArthur committee hearings, this map showed a line which was drawn from
south
north
Pyongyang to Wansen -- it was a line slanting from northwest to southeast
across Korea -- and it was proposed that MacArthur be told to advance his
troops, his whole 8th Army, to this line and hold it at that line.
VOICE:
Is that the so-called "neck"?
VOICES?
Yes -- It's one of them -- Yes -- It's one of the short lines --
MR. ACHESON:
It is one of the short lines, I don't know whether it's called the neck or
not. I recall it as the Pyongyang to Wonsan line.
VOICE
Dr.
Oppehheimer?] Good ports at both ends --
operations
MR. ACHESON: And he was told that/north of that line must be conducted by Korean troops
and what the Korean troops could accomplish they could accomplish, and what
they couldn't accomplish wouldn't be accomplished -- that the 8th Army as
such -- or the 10th Corps, that had then been separated -- would be held at
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