NATIONAL SECURIITY ;POLICY


should say that ,the Secretaries of"Staite iand Defense.and General
Bradley are consulting on matters rel ted to the meetings of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization which Secretary Jolhnson and General
Bradley will attend in Eur6penext week.2
   (5), If it is agreeable to Secretary Johnson, you might suggest ,that
 Mr. Nitze, who has been lacting as chairman of the Sta:te-Defense
 study group, outline the thinking of the group in general terms and
 that General Landon address himself to the military aspects of the
 problem, after which there can be a general discussion of any nature
 which may seem profitable to yourself and Secretary Johnson.
   (6) Finally, depending upon howthe meeting progresses, there may
 be an opportunity to suggest that the next steps ,would seem to call for
   (a) A further-polishing of the paper;
   (b) A reflection in the paper of such comments.as have been forth-
coming during themeeting;
   (e) Detailed processing of the paper through the appropriate ma-
chinery of the two Departments (that as far as the State Department,
is concerned this would be a Selected group of the Assistant Secre-
taries) ; and
   (d) Possible 'additional consultants-on the domestic economic
problems Secretary Snyder 3 and McCabe of the Federal: Reserve
Board 4--would be exitremely useful; on .the problem as a whole Chief
Justice Vinson should be helpful.

  'The Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held
its Third Meeting at The Hague on March 28; the NATO Defense Committee met-
on April 1, also at The HagUe.
  J ohnW. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury.
  . Thmas B. McCabe, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the FederaV
Reserve System.

Policy Planning Staff Files
     Memorandum of Conversation at the Department of State,
        Wednesday, March 22, 1950, 3:"00 p. i. to 3:14 p. iM.'

TOP SECRET
Present,: Department of State
             Secretary Acheson
             Dean Rusk
             Paul H1. Nitze
             R. Gordon Arneson
             George Butler
             Robert Tufts
             hTarry H. Schwartz

  :Presumably drafted by Harry IT. Schwartz, Executive Secretary of the Policy
Planning Staff. For Secretary Acheson's recollection of this meeting, see
Dean
Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York:
W. W. Norton and Company), p. 373.


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