United States national security policy: the extension of military assistance to foreign nations; estimates of threats to the national security; coordination of political and military policy; policy with respect to the acquisition of military bases and air transit rights; foreign policy aspects of the stockpiling of strategic and critical materials1
1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1946, Vol. i, p. 1110.
[379] Memorandum by the Director of the Office of European Affairs (Matthews) to the Secretary of State
[Washington,] January 17, 1947.
840.20/1–1747
[380] Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the President
Washington, February 7,
1947.
811.20/2–7471
[381] Memorandum by the Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs (Hickerson) to the Director of the Office of European Affairs (Matthews)
[Washington,] February 17, 1947.
761.00/2–1747
[382] Memorandum by the Secretary of War (Patterson) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (Hilldring)
Washington, 26 February
1947.
840.20/2–2647
[383] Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Policy Committee on Arms and Armaments, Washington, March 7, 1947, 10:30 a.m.
Washington, March 7, 1947, 10:30 a.m.
Department of State Disarmament Files1
[384] Report by the Special Ad Hoc Committee to the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee
[Washington,] April 21, 1947.
SWNCC Files1
[386] Memorandum by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee
[Washington,] May 12, 1947.
SWNCC Flies
[387] The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Washington, May 17, 1947—1
p.m.
841.00/5–1747: Telegram
[388] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Douglas) to the Secretary of State
London, June 11,
1947—10 a.m.
841.20/6–1147: Telegram
[389] Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (Hilldring) to the Under Secretary of State (Acheson)
Washington, June 26,
1947.
811.24/6–2647
[391] Memorandum by the Counselor of the Department of State (Bohlen) to the Under secretary of State (Lovett)
[Washington,] September 2, 1947.
711.40/8–3047
[392] Memorandum by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee
Washington, September 9,
1947.
SWNCC Flies
[393] Report by the Policy Planning Staff
[Washington,] November 6, 1947.
Policy Planning Staff Files
[394] The National Security Resources Board to President Truman
[Washington,] December 4, 1947.
840.50 Recovery/12–1247
[395] The Acting Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Offices
Washington, December 22,
1947—8:15 a.m.
840.50 Recovery/12–2247: Circular airgram
- The source text—an unindexed photocopy from the papers of Clark M. Clifford at the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri—became available after this volume had been set in pages. No copy was found in the files of the Department of State.↩
- Lot 58D133, a consolidated lot file in the Department of State containing documentation on armaments, regulation of armaments, and disarmament, 1943–1960.↩
- Lot 52M45, the files of the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee which are located in the National Archives under the administration of the Department of State.↩