Editorial Note
At its 106th Meeting, October 23, 1951, the National Security Council considered the question of a proposal for limitation of armed forces and armaments to be submitted at the Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Council discussed the subject in the light of an oral report by Secretary of State Acheson. It was then noted that the Secretaries of State and Defense would undertake to reach agreement for submission to the President, regarding the position of the United States Delegation at the General Assembly with respect to a proposal for limitation of armed forces and armaments, in accordance with the policy established in NSC 112 (page 477). (NSC Action No. 578: S/S–NSC Files, Lot 66 D 95) No further record of the NSC meeting has been found in Department of State files.
A memorandum of October 24, not printed, from W. J. McWilliams, Director of the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State, to William J. Hopkins, White House Clerk, indicates that on October 23 the President and the Secretary of State discussed the limitation of armaments proposal following the NSC meeting, and that during the conversation the President handed down certain unspecified decisions (600.0012/10–2451). No other record of this Truman–Acheson meeting has been found in Department of State files.