Office of the Historian

Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270: Telegram

Colonel Marshall S. Carter to General Marshall

[Washington,] 3 December 1946.

86852. Re 86701.98 Mister Acheson informed me this morning that he had discussed the Marine situation with the President. He stated that he had told the President that he thought perhaps there existed a road block that might require the President’s action before it could be lifted. Mister Acheson stated that the President replied to the effect that he was under the impression that such a road block might, in fact, exist, but that Mister Acheson should understand fully that whatever General Marshall wanted done would be done, and that the President hoped that the matter could be resolved on the Cabinet level. But if it could not be resolved, it would be done by Presidential action. These remarks of Mister Acheson were made to me in the presence of Mister Hickerson,99 one of his advisors.

  1. Supra.↩
  2. John D. Hickerson, Deputy Director, Office of European Affairs.↩