614 FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I

_ SWNCC 4/10 is headed : “Proposed Joint Statement by State, War
and the Navy Departments to be Approved by the President”. It is
understood that this proposed joint statement subsequently was ap-
proved by the President. If there is an additional specific Presidential
directive, it should be attached to NSC/ 56. SWNCC 4/10 reads in
part as follows: | | a | ) |

“With this in view, the Department(s] of State, War and the Navy
will be guided in all matters of military cooperation and execution of
the policy and measures enunciated above by the following general
principles: | | | |

(1) The cooperation of the United States will not be extended
to any other American republic so as to provide it with a military
establishment that is beyond its economic means to support.
(2) Training and equipment shall not be made available by
the United States to the armed forces of any other American re-
publics where there is good reason to believe that they may be used
for aggression or in order to threaten aggression, against one of
its neighboring American republics, thus prejudicing the primary
objective of inter-American unity.
(3) In accordance with the democratic principles that the
United States represents and upholds throughout the world, and
on which its moral credit is largely based, every effort shall be
made to insure that the training and equipment afforded by the

United States to the armed forces of the other American republics”

shall not be used in order to deprive the peoples of the other
American republics of their democratic rights and liberties.

It is clear that the program of collaboration envisaged above is a
program for the military defense of the Hemisphere and, conse-
quently, falls within the field of responsibilities of the War and the
Navy Departments. It is equally clear that measures taken in accord-
ance with the program envisaged above will bear importantly on the
foreign relations of the United States, with American and non-
American nations alike. Consequently, the Department of State, being
responsible for the conduct of the foreign relations of the United
States, has a concurrent and coordinate responsibility with the War
and the Navy Departments in the carrying out of the program en-
visaged above. So that the State, War and Navy Departments may
be in a position to meet their respective responsibilities as indicated
above, all plans shall be made and all measures in the carrying out of
this program shall be taken with the. approval of the War and Navy
Departments in respect to defense policy, and with the approval of the —
Department of State in respect to foreign policy.

In order to realize this division and coordination of responsibility
among the three departments, it has been agreed that: |

(1) The War and Navy Departments shall assume the initia-
tive (based on bilateral and subsequent military staff conversa-
tions) in preparing the basic plans for indoctrinating, training
and equipping the armed forces of each of the other American

_ yepublics in accordance with the policy set. forth above.. These
plans, set forth in such detail as 1s practicable, shall be submitted