Editorial Note
At 2:30 p. m. on June 28, the National Security Council met in the Cabinet Room of the White House to discuss Korea. A memorandum of conversation by Philip Jessup who was present, filed in Department of State top secret file 795.00/6–2850, was not declassified by the National Security Council in time for inclusion in this volume. Published accounts of the meeting can be found in Truman, Years of Trial and Hope, pages 340–341; Acheson, Present at the Creation, page 411; and Paige, The Korean Decision, pages 221–226.
Part of the discussion dealt with possible future moves by the Soviet Union, concerning which subject Secretary Acheson had transmitted the paper to Secretary of Defense Johnson prior to the meeting, infra.