272. Report by the Special Stockpile Advisory Committee to the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization (Gray)

Source: Department of State, E/CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Supplemental Stockpile Criteria and Administration—CFEP 567. No classification marking. On October 1, 1957, the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization appointed a 12-person Special Advisory Committee to review the U.S. Government’s current stockpiling policies and programs. Holman D. Pettibone, Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Title and Trust Company, was the chairman of the committee which included Earl L. Butz, Dean of the School of Agriculture, Purdue University; Donald F. Carpenter, General Manager of the Film Department of E.I. duPont de Nemours Co.; Frederick C. Crawford, Chairman of Thompson Products Inc.; Edwin L. Crosby, M.D., Director of American Hospital Association; Henry H. Fowler, Washington lawyer; John D. Morgan, Jr., Washington minerals consultant; Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN (ret.); General Walter Bedell Smith, USA (ret.); James E. Webb, President and General Manager of Republic Supply Co.; Walter G. Whitman, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Clyde Williams, President of Clyde Williams & Co. All members of the committee concurred in this report.

273. Memorandum for the Files by the President’s Deputy Assistant (Morgan)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. No classification marking. Drafted by Gerald D. Morgan.

274. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Confidential. Drafted by Becker.

275. Letter From the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization (Gray) to the President’s Special Assistant (Randall)

Source: Department of State, E/CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Supplemental Stockpile Criteria and Administration—CFEP 567. Confidential.

276. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by L. Arthur Minnich, Jr.

277. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.

278. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and the Legal Adviser (Becker)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, General Telephone Conversations. No classification marking. Transcribed by Phyllis D. Bernau. Initialed by Herter.

279. Editorial Note

280. White House Staff Notes No. 377

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret.

281. Memorandum From the Director of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce Files, Department of Commerce (Macy) to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs (Kearns)

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce Files 321, Economic and Social Council. Administratively Restricted. Drafted by C.I. Blau, International Resources Staff, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, on June 3.

282. Memorandum of Discussion at the 368th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Gleason on June 20.

283. Editorial Note

284. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for Economic Affairs (Hauge) to the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster)

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Central Files, Confidential File, Agricultural Surpluses. No classification marking.

285. Telegram From Secretary of State Dulles to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 811.2553/11–1058. Secret; Priority.

286. Memorandum From the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (Hoegh) to President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Rand Records, Nationalization-Rand. No classification marking.

287. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs (Kearns) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign Commerce Files, 496, wk. copy. No classification marking. Drafted by H.N. Blackman, International Resources Staff, Bureau of Foreign Commerce. According to a memorandum from Loring K. Macy, Director of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, to Kearns, November 20, this submission to the CFEP was based in good part on a draft prepared in the Department of the Treasury. (Ibid.)

288. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Dillon) to Secretary of State Dulles

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Memoranda with the President. Confidential; Personal and Private.

289. Memorandum From the Secretary of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Cullen) to the Council

Source: Department of State, E/CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, CFEP 577, U.S. Restrictions on Imports of Oil Which Affect Canada. Secret.

290. Memorandum From the Secretary of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Cullen) to the Chairman of the Council (Randall)

Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records, Staff Series, CFEP. Secret.

291. Memorandum of Discussion at the 392d Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Boggs.

292. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Cabinet Secretariat. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.

293. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between Acting Secretary of State Herter and the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Murphy)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Herter Papers, Telephone Conversations. No classification marking. Transcribed in Dillon’s office.

294. Editorial Note

295. Study Prepared by an Interagency Group Chaired by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization

Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, Near and Middle East, 1959–1961. Secret. The source text is undated but the study was transmitted to the National Security Council under a March 26 memorandum by Lay; see footnote 2, Document 309.

296. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Cabinet Secretariat. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.

297. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Paarlberg) to the President’s Personal Secretary (Whitman)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. No classification marking. Drafted by Paarlberg.

298. Memorandum of Discussion at the 406th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Boggs.

299. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Beale) to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Dillon)

Source: Department of State, E/CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Extension of the Sugar Act. Confidential. Drafted by Jack B. Button of the of Commodities Division, Office of International Resources, Bureau of Economic Affairs. Cleared in draft with Robert M. Carr, Director of the Office of International Resources; Robert A. Stevenson, Officer-in-Charge of Cuba Affairs; Florence Kirlin of the Bureau of Congressional Relations; Francis G. Jarvis, Officer-in-Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs, and cleared in substance with Jean H. Mulliken, Officer-in-Charge of Commodities and Commercial Policy, Office of Inter-American Regional Economic Affairs.

300. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mann) to Acting Secretary of State Herter

Source: Eisenhower Library, Herter Papers, Cabinet, 1959. Secret. Drafted by Donald S. Spigler of the Commodities Division of the Office of International Resources. Cleared in draft with Robert M. Carr, Chief of the Office; Clarence W. Nichols, Acting Special Assistant in the Bureau of Economic Affairs; Sydney L. W. Mellen, Chief of the Commodities Division; and Wingfield N. Chamberlain of that Division.

301. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Cabinet Secretariat. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.