Evolution of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; SEATO Council Meetings; Activities of the ANZUS Powers; The Question of a Defense Production Base in Australia and New Zealand; The Afro-Asian Conference (The Bandung Conference); The NSC 5612 Series; United States Concern with Regional Development in Asia1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XII, Part 1.


61. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/7–1355. Secret; Priority. Also sent priority to Paris for the Secretary, Manila, Wellington, Canberra, Karachi, London, Saigon, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane.


62. Telegram From the Department of State to the Legation in Laos

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/7–1655. Confidential; Niact. Drafted in PSA and approved by Robertson. Repeated priority to Geneva for the Secretary, and priority to Bangkok, Paris, Manila, Wellington, Canberra, Karachi, London, Saigon, and Phnom Penh.


63. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/7–2155. Secret. Drafted in PSA and approved by Robertson. Also sent niact to London, Paris, and Canberra; repeated to Geneva for the Secretary and to Manila, Wellington, Karachi, Vientiane, Saigon, and Phnom Penh.


64. Telegram From the Embassy in Thailand to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/7-2755. Secret. Repeated to Vientiane, Paris, London, Karachi, Manila, Wellington, Canberra, Saigon, and Phnom Penh.


65. Letter From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Radford) to the Australian Ambassador (Spender)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/7–2855. Secret. Attached to a covering note dated July 28, not printed, to Robertson from Rear Admiral T.J. Hedding, Deputy Director for Strategic Plans, Joint Staff.


66. Telegram From the Embassy in Australia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/8–1155. Top Secret; Priority.


67. Letter From the Acting Director of Central Intelligence (Cabell) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/9–1255. Secret.


68. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, September 12, 1955

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/9–1255. Secret. Drafted by Merchant.


69. Memorandum for the Record by the Deputy Director for Strategic Plans, Joint Staff (Hedding)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/9–1455. Secret. Also circulated as TAN Ref 2/51 in the Reference Paper series assembled in preparation for the ANZUS Council Meeting. (Attachment to a note dated September 22 by J. Stewart Cottman; ibid.. Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627, CF 552)


70. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Radford) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/9–2155. Top Secret. Also sent to Gordon Gray, Douglas MacArthur II, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. The source text bears the following marginal notation by O’Connor: “Sec saw—no answer RO’C”.


71. United States Minutes of the ANZUS Council Meeting, Department of State, Washington, September 24, 1955, 9:30 a.m.

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627, CF 552. Secret. No drafting officer is indicated on the source text.


72. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, October 6, 1955

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5n0–655. Secret. Drafted by Bell. A typed uninitialed marginal note reads: “This has not been cleared and is an informal record of the meeting. No Distribution to overseas posts nor other U.S. Government agencies, (per C—Mr. MacArthur)” In an attached note dated October 12 to Robert G Barnes., Director of the Executive Secretariat, Richard R. Selby of the Reports and Operations Staff stated that the memorandum “was not cleared with the Secretary on Mr. MacArthur’s instructions.”


74. Telegram From the Commander in Chief, Pacific (Stump), to the Chief of Naval Operations (Carney)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/11–2455. Secret. Repeated to the Secretary of Defense, the Air Force and Army Chiefs of Staff, and the Department of State. The source text is the Department of State copy.


75. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/12–255. Secret. Drafted by Bell and MacArthur; cleared by Sebald; and approved by MacArthur. Repeated to Singapore, London, and Paris.


76. Memorandum From the Counselor of the Department of State (MacArthur) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5./12–255. Secret. Attached to the following handwritten note by MacArthur: “Mr. Secretary—I would hope you might have a chance to read the attached memo relating to Southeast Asia. The situation has changed drastically since we signed the Manila Pact with the entry of the Soviets into the area on an active basis. I would also hope we could have a meeting next week with you as I think this is a subject which you should talk to Macmillan about in Paris.”

The memorandum bears the handwritten notation by Macomber: “Sec saw WM”. No record has been found in Department of State files of any meeting held as suggested by MacArthur, or of a discussion concerning Southeast Asia by Dulles and Macmillan during the Secretary’s visit to Paris in December.


78. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/12–2255. Secret; Niact. Drafted by Bell and approved by MacArthur. Repeated to Singapore, London, Paris, Karachi, Manila, Canberra, Wellington, and CINCPAC (Honolulu). The time of transmission is illegible on the source text.


79. Telegram From the Embassy in Thailand to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/12–2955. Secret; Priority; Limited Distribution. Repeated to London, Singapore, Wellington, and Canberra.


80. Minutes of a United States–United Kingdom Foreign Ministers Meeting, Department of State, Washington, January 31, 1956, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation, Lot 64 D 199. Secret. No drafting information is given on the source text. The minutes were distributed on February 7. Other sections of these minutes are printed elsewhere as noted in the bracketed notes. The complete text is scheduled for publication in volume XXVII.

Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd accompanied Prime Minister Eden for talks with President Eisenhower and other U.S. officials. The talks commenced with the arrival of the British party on January 30 and concluded on February 1. A “Joint Statement” issued on the latter date includes sections on Southeast Asia and East Asia. For text, see Department of State Bulletin, February 13, 1956, p. 232.


81. Draft Memorandum by the Officer in Charge of Australia and New Zealand Affairs (Kavanaugh)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/2–656. Top Secret. In an attached note to Bell, February 6, Kavanaugh indicated that this memorandum was a draft. No later version has been found in Department of State files.


82. Department of State Position Paper

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 655. Secret. Attached to a memorandum dated February 24 by Roger Kirk, which states it was drafted by Nicholas Thacher, Officer in Charge of Pakistan-Afghanistan Affairs, in preparation for the forthcoming SEATO Council Meeting, held in Karachi March 6–8.


83. Department of State Position Paper

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 656. Secret. No drafting information is given on the source text. It is attached to a note dated February 28 by Kirk which states it had been cleared with MacArthur and Sullivan.


84. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Counselor of the Department of State (MacArthur) and the British Ambassador (Makins), Department of State, Washington, February 29, 1956

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 656. Secret. Drafted by MacArthur.


85. Telegram From the Delegation at the SEATO Council Meeting to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–756. Repeated to London, Wellington, Canberra, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Paris, and CINCPAC at Honolulu.


86. Telegram From the Delegation at the SEATO Council Meeting to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–756. Confidential. Repeated to London, Paris, Wellington, Canberra, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, and Moscow. The U.S. Verbatim Minutes of this session, USVerb/1, March 6, are Ibid., Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 659.


87. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Diplomatic Posts

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–756. Confidential; Priority. Sent to Karachi and repeated to Bangkok, Canberra, London, Manila, Paris, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Wellington.


88. Telegram From the Delegation at the SEATO Council Meeting to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–756. Confidential. Repeated to London, Wellington, Canberra, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, and Paris.


89. Telegram From the Delegation at the SEATO Council Meeting to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–856. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to London, Paris, Canberra, Wellington, Bangkok, Manila, New Delhi, and Kabul.


90. Telegram From the Delegation at the SEATO Council Meeting to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–KA/3–856. Confidential.