NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY


Secretaries of State and Defense and has had an adequate opportunity
thoroughly to'study it and to come to a decision with regard to the
major conclusion. If his decision is affirmative, it is assumed that the
various agencies of the Government will be instructed, under the
coordination of the NSC, to develop programs in connection there-
with; and at that time the full machinery of the Department will be
called into action. If the President decides in the negative, no one
in this Department will refer to that fact or talk about this study.


S/S-NSC Files: Lot 63D351 : NSC 14 Series
   Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Webb) to the
     Executive Secretary of the National Security Council (Lay) 2

 SECRET                               WASHINGTON, March 30, 1950.
 Subject: First Progress Report on NSC 14/1, "The Position of the
     United States with Respect to Providing Military Assistance to
     Nations of the Non-Soviet World." 3
   NSC 14/1 was approved as governmental policy on July 10, 1948.
 It is requested that this Progress Report dated March 24, 1950, be
 ciriculated to-th'emember-sof the Council for their info mation.
   The conclusions of NSC 14/1 .were Implemented by the enactment
 on October 6 of Public Law 329, 81st Congress-the Mutual Defense
 Assistance Act of 1949, and by Public Law 430, which made appropria-
 tions authorized by the enabling act. This legislation was prepared for
 presentation to Congress by -he Foreign Assistance Correlation Com-
 mittee, composed of representatives of the Departments of State and
 Def ense an'd the",E CA.
   TheWMutual' Defense Assistance Program authorized by Public Law
 329 is now being carried out join'tly by the Departments of State and
 Defense and the ECA, under ýthe general direction of the Department
 of State. Firm programs for military assistance to North Atlantic
 Treaty countries were established following the signing of bilateral
 agreements with those countries on January 27' and the simultaneous
 approval by the President of the concept for integrated defense of the
 North ýlantlicarea. Shipments of miit ary materiel to Western Eu-
 rope were begun on March 8 and will be continued in ever-increasing
 volume. Projects are being :initiated for limited increases in military

   Serial master files of National Security Council documentation and related
 Department of State material for the years 1947-1961, retired by the Executive
 Secretariat of the Department of State.
   .'Transmitted to the members of the National Security Council on March
31.
   'Fortext of NSC 14/1, July 1, 1948, see Foreign Relations, 1948, vol.
i, Part 2,
 p. 585.


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