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  a. A multilateral agreement among the American States which will
list the broad measures of military cooperation required for the de-
fense of the Western Hemisphere.
  b. Subsequent bilateral-agreements among those governments which
will be required to produce operational commitments.
  3. The Western Hemisphere defense scheme to be proposed for
acceptance by the Organization of American States should include:
  a. A strategic concept of the defense of the American States, both
intra- and extra-continental, but within the Treaty of Reciprocal
Assistance.
  b. A statement of the strategic military objectives of the American
States designed to achieve the maximum of Western Hemisphere co-
operative strength under the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal
Assistance, 1947, for the accomplishment of that concept.
  c. A statement of strategic military requirements of the collaborat-
ing American States for accomplishing their objectives.
  4. In order that the Latin American countries may feel that they
have been considered an integral factor in hemispherical defense, the
military agreements under the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal
Assistance should be considered contemporaneously with those of the
North Atlantic Security Pact. The U.S. Delegation to the IADB
should devote its primary effort toward stimulating, within the IADB,
the development of this Western Hemisphere defense scheme for ulti-
mate acceptance by the Organization of American States. When so
accepted, it will become fundamental in the U.S. hemisphere defense
plan and will provide the basis for U.S. bilateral agreements with the
other American States. In exerting this effort, the U.S. Delegation
will adhere to the precepts set forth in subsequent instruction and to
such additional guidance as may be requested or required.
   5. The political framework for U.S. ,participation in the Inter-
 American Defense Board is contained in the Inter-American Treaty
 of Reciprocal Assistance, in the charter of the Organization of Ameri-
 can States,7 and the Senate Resolution 239.8
   *. The principal strategic military objectives of the U.S. in Latin
 America are:
   a. The continued and increasing production and delivery of essen-
 tial strategic raw materials.
   b. The ,maintenance within each nation of political stability and
 of internal security to insure protection of the installations upon
 which the production and delivery of strategic materials depend.
   c. The mutual cooperation of all the Latin American Nations in
 support of the United States.

   7 The text is printed as TIAS No. 2361 in United States Treaties and Other
 International Agreements (UST), vol. 2 (pt. 2), p. 2394.
   8Text in A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-49
 (Senate Document No. 123, 81st Congress, 1st Session), p. 197.