Editorial Note

Between 10:15 and 10:50 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson spoke by telephone with Senator Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate [Page 171] Committee on Foreign Relations; Senator Alexander Wiley, second ranking minority member of the Committee; and Representative John Kee, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He gave them an account of the Department’s action in the crisis and said that the situation seemed to be in hand.

In a subsequent talk with Representative Kee, who called him at 1:45 p. m., the Secretary indicated that, since their earlier conversation, reports indicated that things were now not going so well in Korea. (Korean Conflict)

Meanwhile, President Truman had issued his first formal statement on the Korean situation. He referred to his meeting on the previous evening with Secretaries Acheson and Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, termed the action by North Korea “lawless” and “unprovoked aggression”, and promised that the United States would “vigorously support the effort of the [Security] Council to terminate this serious breach of the peace”. For the complete text, see United States Policy in the Korean Crisis (Department of State publication 3922; Washington, Government Printing Office, July 1950), page 16.