'NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY


661.61/3-350
      Memorandum, of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

 TOP SECRET                         [WASHINGTON,] March 3, 1950.
   Mr. Bernard M. Baruch' called upon me today. The call was
 arranged in the following way. The Secretary of Defense telephoned
 to me to say that General Bradley2 and Under Secretary Early 3 haacl
 been staying with Mr. Baruch in Sonth Carolina. During their visit
 Mr. Baruch expressed his desire to give me certain information re-
 lating to conversations which he had had with Mr. Gromyko.4 Secre-
 tary Johnson thought ,that it would be advisable ,for me to see Mr.
 Baruch. I said that I would be glad to see him and the meeting was
 therefore arranged.
 The Gromylo YMatter:
 Mr. Baruch began with-a lengthy discussion of his relationship with
 Mr. Gromyko, with whom he had been thrown in close contact during
 his service on the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations.6
 lie and Mr. Gromyko had established friendly relations, even though
 they had violent public disagreements as to policy. Mr. Gromyko
 continually expressed the view that the United States was making no
 effort to reach agreement on the control of atomic energy or the
 atomic bomb and 'repeated an alleged observation of Marshal Stalin
 that the United States never gave the Soviet Union anything which
 could cause it to make concessions in any area. At one point Mr.
 Baruch stated to Mr. Gromyko his belief that if he could see Marshal
 Stalin he could convince him of the error of his views in this and
 other matters. After some general conversation in which Mr. Gromyko
 said that Mr. Baruch was regarded in Russia as an enemy of the
 Soviet Union, Gromyko decided to consider the matter further. Later
 on he informed Mr. Baruch that he could have a visa for the Soviet
 Union and that he could talk with any of the government officials
 that he wanted except possibly -Marshal Stalin, although that matter
 would have to be decided later on. He could also go where he wished.
 Mr. Baruch said that he had the question of the propriety of his
 going put up to Secretary Marshall 6 although not directly by Mr.

 United States Representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Com-
 mission in 1946.
 'Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 I Stephen T. Early, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
 'Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister; Soviet Representative
at the United Nations, 1946-1948.
  5For documentation on negotiations in the United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission during 1946, see Foreign Relations, 1946. vol. i, pip. 712 ff.
  "George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, January 1947-January 1949.


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