NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY


lemorandu      by the Counselor (Kennan) to the-Secretary of State'
CONFIDENTIAL                        [WAsHINGTON,] January 6, 1950.

   MR..- SECETARE:" Sincewe assume that you will wish. to. make your
 presentation to the Congressional committees2 in your own-words,
 we are submitting the following in abbreviated form, as an .outline
 from which you might speak.
   We have pruned it" ruthlessly, on account of the limitation on the
 time which will be available to us.
                             I. GENERAL
   Our foreign policy program falls into twoparts: . " .-..'1-
   1. Conflict-with.Russian Communism;-
   2. Improving climate of -international life in free:world.
   Tlii0 last is matter of'finding suitable-bases for living together and
cooperation between our own country, with its overwhelming economic
power and its own peculiar traditions' and, psychology, and large
numbe6r of weaker countries in various.stges o0f change and
readjustment,
  The'-Wo problems inter-related--but latter is basic.,We cannot avoid
it; anrd must not let "cold war" blind us tO its necessities.
             II CONFLICT WITH RUSSIAN COMM-UNIsM
                         I.:SOVIET:.PROBLEMS
  Last-few months hlve seen important developments in relations
within communist world.
  Tito .affair continues to constitute major problem for Kremlin.4
Sov ieteffort, to unseata Tito-by internal subversion :th-us far quite
unsucesgsful. Come spring, Kremlin Will have to decide whether
to use military means or let Tito continue to disrupt unity an~d dis-
cipline of communist world. Probably won't use military means. In
any case, we vill face thatz problem when-we, come-to-it.

  "_largin 1 notations by.the Secretary of State,. each consisting merely.
of a
summary key word or-two, appear beside certain paragraphs in the source text.
  2 Se-retary Acheson discussed: the: world situation in executive sessions
,of:the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 1.0 and-13, 1950. For the-record
of those meetings, see Reviews of. the World Situation, 19,9-1950: Hearings
FHeld
in -Executive Session Before th.e Committee on Foreign Relations,-United'
States
Senate (81s.tCong.,- 1st and 22nd sessions), Committee. on ForeignRelations
His-
tfrical S eIries (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1974), pp. 105-200.''
Secretary Acheson also appeared in executive session before the House Foreign
Affairs.Committee on January .11.
   os.ipJrozTi.,to, .Marshal of Yugoslavia; Pim Minister andM      f
Defense of Yugbslavia.
   Documentation-on the attitude: of the-. -United States. toward&the
Yugoslav-
Cominform conflict and on the extension of military, and economicaid -,to
Yug-
slavia is scheduled for publication in volume IV.


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