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iecssaryto have a realistic survey of present programs and of the
extent by whych projeted programs fall short of needs,
  I   nf cenusions of ,this nature are to be adoped and carried out, they
would have to be. adopted as national policy gndhave full S pporit
not only.of the minio strationlbut of the Cong-ressand public as well.
We suggest the report should ,point up to a igh level examInation of
these tentative conclusions iand !ecommend the apoinment of a top.
level 'board or comision to -examine ,them, :Suh a board might con-
sist of-Secretaries of State and Defense,, General Bradley, Vannevar
Bush, Paul Hoffman," Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
andthe ~chairmazn of the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and
House.
  I suspect it would be found that no very great increase in our . present
rae of e-xpenditure.would be called for, but r4ther a better allocation
of resources and a-.unified-national policy which would apply our
resources more directlyto the solution of the basic problem which is
well-expressed in chapter.of the State-Defense study as ýfollows:

   The problem is to create such political and economic conditions0 in
 the free world, backed by 'force sufficient to inhIbit Soviet ,attack, that
 the Kremlin will accommodate itlf o these condition, gradually
 w.ithdraw, and evntulally change its poices drastially.

 S     !President of the Carnegie Institution of Washinglon; Director of
the Office
 of Scientific Research and- Develtopment during"World war- II.
 A dministrator for Economic .o opeaton..

 Po1icy Planning staff Fvies
 ,Meprorandum    ith   Asnistant Secetryp State -for Furopean
              Afairs (Perkins) to the Secr y f State

 TOP.R.u-          -        ,T [wasNGToN,1 April 3,1950.
 Subject: Draft report to the. President and the State-Defense Staff
     Study'-
   .I have ,not had time"to go ,through the State-Defens .'Staff Study,
 but, however, I haw read the draft report to the President. I have also
 had an qp~portunity to -read Mr.Thompson's commens of hhis dat on
 this paper. In general, I agree with theposition which he has indi-
 cated. There are a few other points which I might add.
   First, the question of whether or not an intensive drive in the United
 States to step up activity in-the cold: war would have adverse reper-

    'The documents under reference are described in Under Secretary Webb's
 memorandum of March 30 and footnotes 2 and 3 thereto, p..210.


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