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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 5-0, VOLUME I


  This memo is in fact supplementary to secret memo given to Dr.
Fernandes December 15. which President Dutra has seen. Reference
top secret despatch 18, January 5, 1950 8 forwarding copy.
  In memo left today I purposely omitted mention of "not less than
3,000 metric tons raw monazite a year". Inasmuch as 3,000 tons export
a year has not yet been reached and as-Brazil has certain needs of her
own for monazite, I felt it would be prudent omit this figure as it
might give 'handle to some violent nationalist to say Brazil has no
exportable surplus. In any event the two memoranda stand together.
  Thank you for Deptel 198 March 24,8 which I received after my
return from visit to President. I did not mention beryl to President
as it is my understanding it will be included in proposed legislation
and as there is now no restriction on its export except necessity of
getting export license. I shall check on beryl with Dr. Fernandes at our
next meeting.
                                                        JOHNSON

  'For text of the memorandum of December 15,1949, see Foreign Relations,
1949, vol. i, p. 603.
  " Notprinted.


t)epartment of State Atomic Energy Files
     The Secretary of State to the Secretary of Defense (Johnson)

TOP SECRET                           [WAsHINGTON,] April 3, 1950.
  DEAR MR. SECRETARY: The Department of State has given careful
thoughtto0 the policy guidance suggested in your memorandum of
March 13, 1950, for the United States representatives in the current
uranium negotiations between the Combined Development Agency
(CDA) and the Atomic Energy Board of the Union of South Africa.
In making this study, the Department has taken into consideration
Mr. Pike's memorandum on this subject of March 21, 1950,1 a copy
of which it is understood the Atomic Energy Commission furnished
the Department of Defense.
   It is apparent from examination that the policy guidance, ifTfol-
 lowed, would involve a reversal in the course of the present uranium
 negotiations with the South Africans as well as in the established
 approach to atomic raw material problems the United States Govern-
 ment has followed heretofore. For reasons advanced in the attached
 memorandum,' the Department of State believes-that-this reversal
 would be inconsistent with American obligations assumed under the
 1Not printed.