636            FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19-50, -VOLUME I

resentatives of the military role of each of the'American states in
the collective defense of the Hemisphere.8
  25. When these roles are formulated, the United States should
support necessary and desirable measures leading to the acceptance
by the various governments of their military roles in Hemisphere
defense.
  26. When the Western Hemisphere Defense Scheme is approved
by the United States and the other American republics and upon con-
sequent acceptance of military roles the United States should then
prepare for its own purposes a careful estimate of the requirement
of each of the other American republics for the maintenance of forces
essential to Hemisphere defense. These estimates should serve as a
guide in arrangements for the provision of such mutual assistance
among the American republics as may be necessary to assure adequate
implementation of the Hemisphere Defense Scheme.
   27. The United States should seek to persuade the Latin American
nations to minimize their military expenditures in time of peace by
maintaining only those armed forces necessary to meet their obliga-
tions for collective defense. To accomplish the foregoing it may be
necessary -in some cases for the United States:
   a. To assist Latin American nations -to obtain from U.S. sources
 the armaments required for the maintenance of such forces.
   b. To encourage and advise Latin American nations through U.S.
 missions and other training media to make optimum use of their forces
 in the interests of collective defense.
   28. 'The development and implementation of this program     at all
 stages as well as the timing of individual steps should be carried out
 with the closest coordination between the Departments of State and
 Defense and should be cuided by:"9
   a. The military requirements of the United States in the event of
 war.
   b. The strategic justification for the defense roles assumed by the
 American republics.
   c. The need for limitation or exclusion of extra-Hemisphere mili-
 tary influence in Latin America.
   d. The economic condition of each Latin American state.
   'In a memorandum of March 2, 1950, to Mr. Barber, Mr. Dreier had mentioned
 that Max W. Bishop, State Department representative on the NSC Staff, had
un-
 successfully attempted to secure Defense Department approval of this additional
 sentence: "the formulation of these roles should be carried out with
the closest
 coordination between the Departments of State and Defense." (710.5/3-250)
   'The equivalent sentence in the NSC Staff's draft of February 14, 1950,
read:
 "The development and implementation of this program should be guided
 by: . . ." (720.5 MAP/2-1450) According to the memorandum cited in
footnote 8
 above, the altered language in later drafts .represented a compromise with
the
 Sta~te Dep~artment's proposal there nmentioned.                 ..