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The Chairman of the North Atlantic Council Defense Committee (Johnson) to the Chairman of the North Atlantic Council (Acheson)
Dear Mr. Chairman: I am in receipt of a letter from the Chairman of the Council Deputies, 2 September 1950, concerning Deputies Document D–D/62 (Final). This document refers to the memorandum of August 17, 1950, by the French Government, with regard to certain questions on the implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty defense plans. The Chairman requested preliminary recommendations on this paper be made available to you at the September 15th Council session.
I wish to inform you that there are a number of recommendations forthcoming on the implementation of defense planning, and putting agreed plans into effect. I therefore believe that, in the interest of clarity, that the Deputies’ resolution should be referred to the Military and Defense Committees as a whole. I am therefore requesting the Chairman of the Standing Group to take action to permit these discussions at the forthcoming October meetings.
Until this is done I believe that any preliminary recommendations would not serve a useful purpose.
Sincerely yours,