Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I

Secretary’s Memoranda, Lot 53 D 444¹

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

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[Washington,] August 1, 1951.

At the NSC meeting this afternoon the first paper discussed was no. 114.² The President asked Mr. Lovett for comments who then requested that the paper be put over for one week stating that figures furnished by the Department of Defense to the Senior Staff had turned out to be hastily prepared and erroneous. He illustrated this at some length.

The President agreed for the paper to go over, but expressed very strong determination that steps had to be taken to accelerate the program. It will be referred to the Senior Staff and discussed next week.

[Here follows discussion of another subject.]

D[ean] A[cheson]

1. Collections of the Secretary of State’s memoranda, memoranda of conversation, and memoranda of conversation with the President for the years 1947–1953, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.
2. Not printed, but for text of NSC 114/1, August 8, see p. 127.