Secretary’s Daily Meetings, Lot 58 D 609, June 1951
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Executive Secretariat (McWilliams)
[Extract]1
secret
[Washington,] June 18, 1951.
Subject: Summary of Meeting with the Secretary
| Participants: | Mr. Acheson |
| Mr. Matthews | |
| Mr. Barrett | |
| Mr. Nitze | |
| Mr. Cabot | |
| Mr. Byroade2 | |
| Mr. McCloy | |
| Mr. Harriman | |
| Mr. McWilliams | |
| Mr. Battle |
Item 1. Kem Amendment
There was a general discussion of the Kem Amendment . . .3 the consensus of opinion being that the issue would get a lot hotter before [Page 1117] it cooled off. After the discussion, the Secretary said there were four things which he would like to see done which are as follows:
- (1)
- From the public relations aspect, we should make every effort to inform various groups of the issues involved;
- (2)
- We should be sure that testimony presented on the Hill by various administration witnesses is consistent;
- (3)
- We should plan to make visits to various Senators and Congressmen to inform them on the issues and supply them with material for speeches, etc.; and,
- (4)
- Take appropriate action to get CIA to cease circulating unevaluated reports on shipments of goods without reporting the reasons for the shipments.
I have talked to Mr. Barrett, Mr. Ben Brown,4 Mr. Linder and Mr. Armstrong about these points and they are working on them.
. . . . . . . .
W. J. McWilliams
- The omitted sections summarized discussions of the Iranian oil situation, shipments to Communist China, Bolivian tin, and Korea.↩
- Henry A. Byroade, Director of the Office of German Affairs in the Department of State.↩
- Ellipsis in the source text.↩
- Ben H. Brown, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs.↩