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The Secretary of Defense (Marshall) to the Secretary of State
Dear Mr. Secretary: Reference is made to the letter of 6 November 1950, from Deputy Under Secretary of State Matthews to General [Page 1117] Burns, regarding Chinese Communist intervention in North Korea. The Department of Defense sees no objection, from the military point of view, to the draft resolution for the Security Council which was enclosed with the above letter.
With respect to the request of the Department of State for the views of the Department of Defense on the military significance of Chinese Communist intervention in North Korea, the Department of Defense has this matter under consideration.1
Faithfully yours,
- Under date of November 10, Secretary Marshall transmitted the reply (not printed) of the Department of Defense to the November 6 letter from Mr. Matthews to General Burns. Secretary Marshall indicated his concurrence with the conclusions contained in paragraph 12 of the JCS memorandum of November 9, infra, a copy of which he sent along to Mr. Acheson. (795.00/11–1050)↩