Editorial Note

NSC document 73/4, “The Position and Action of the United States With Respect to Possible Further Soviet Moves in the Light of the Korean Situation,” August 25, 1950, printed in volume I, page 375, recommended that, in the event of an overt attack by organized Soviet military forces against Greece or Turkey, the United States should provide accelerated military assistance to either country and deploy such United States forces to their support as could be made available without jeopardizing United States national security. In the case of Turkey, the United States should urge the United Kingdom and France to give full support under the British-French-Turkish Treaty of Mutual Assistance, signed at Ankara oh October 19, 1939, and should make every effort to obtain the support of Turkey by the Moslem world including Pakistan.