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United States national security policy: estimates of threats to the national security; organization for national security; military posture and foreign policy; the extension of military assistance to foreign nations; efforts to acquire military bases and air transit rights in foreign areas; foreign policy aspects of strategic stockpiling; foreign information policy 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1947, vol. i, pp. 707–780.

[2] Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Edmund A. Gullion, Special Assistant to the under Secretary of State (Lovett)

[Washington,] January 27, 1948.

Lot 57D688, the Department of State consolidated lot file on atomic energy policy, 1944–1962.

[3] Memorandum by the Director of the Policy Planning Staff (Kennan) to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State (Lovett)

[Washington,] February 24, 1948.

Lot 64D563, files of the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State, 1947–1953.

[4] Report by the Policy Planning Staff

[Washington,] February 24, 1948.

[10] Memorandum by Mr. John Foster Dulles

[New York,] March 24, 1948.

[11] Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary (Souers)

[Washington,] March 30, 1948.

Serial master file of National Security Council documentation and related Department of State material for the years 1947–1961, retired by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.

[18] Memorandum by the Secretary of Defense (Forrestal) to the National Security Council

[Washington,] April 19, 1948.

S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63D351: NSC 5 Series

[19] Current Economic Developments

[Washington,] May 10, 1948.

Lot 54D361, containing the publication Current Economic Developments for the years 1945–1952.

[20] Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State

[Washington, undated.]

S/S–Files: Lot 63D351: NSC 30 Series

[22] Memorandum Approved by the State–Army–Navy–Air Force Coordinating Committee

[Washington,] 15 June 1948.

Lot 52M45, the files of the State–Army–Navy–Air Force Coordinating Committee (SANACC) and its predecessor, the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC), located in the National Archives under the administration of the Department of State. SWNCC was reconstituted as SANACC pursuant to the National Security Act of 1947. Regarding the terms of reference of SANACC, see NSC 25, August 12, p. 605.

[24] Report by the Strategic Materials Working Group to the Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy

[Washington,] June 21, 1948.

Lot 122, a consolidated lot file consisting of records of inactive or terminated committees of the Department of State and inter-departmental committees on which the Department of State was represented. Material in this lot, which includes a set of the papers of the Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy, was retired by the staff of the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.

[26] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, June 30, 1948—6 p. m.

761.00/6–3048: Telegram

[27] Report to the President by the National Security Council

Washington, July 1, 1948.

S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63D351: NSC 14 Series

[28] Report to the National Security Council by the Secretary of Defense (Forrestal)

Washington, July 12, 1948.

S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63D351: NSC 20 Series

[29] The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Offices

Washington, July 20, 1948.

811.20200(d)/7–2048