Editorial Note

At 5 p. m. on June 29, the National Security Council met in the Cabinet Room of the White House to discuss Korea. A memorandum of conversation on the meeting by Philip Jessup, who was present, filed in Department of State top secret file 795.00/6–2950, was not declassified by the National Security Council in time for inclusion in this volume. Published accounts of the meeting may be found in Truman, Years of Tried and Hope, pages 341–342; Acheson, Present at the Creation, pages 411–412; Schnabel, Policy and Direction: The First Year, pages 76–77; and Paige, The Korean Decision, pages 244–252.

Part of the discussion dealt with a draft instruction from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to General MacArthur, which was read to the meeting by Secretary Johnson. After discussion and emendation, as indicated in the account by President Truman, the instruction was sent as printed infra.