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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 7, 1954
| MEMORANDUM FOR: | SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF |
At a meeting in the President's office with the President, J. F. Dulles and Cutler, the President approved Paragraph 1b of the tentative Record of Action of 5/6/54 Meeting of the National Security Council, but wished that the advice to Smith relative to Eden's proposal should also make clear the following points:
- 1. Five Power Staff Agency, alone or with other nations, is not to the United States a satisfactory substitute for a broad political coalition which will include the South East Asian countries which are to be defended.
- 2. Five Power Staff Agency examination is acceptable to see how these nations can give military aid to the Southeast Asian countries in their cooperative defense effort.
- 3. The United States will not agree to a "white man's party" to determine the problems of the Southeast Asian nations.
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ROBERT CUTLER
Special Assistant
to the President
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