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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100050041-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: May 13, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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create an economic foundation to support the required military
effort and conditions of life in the West; (c) full use of German
production is a matter of urgency and requires the attention
of the Western Powers; (d) although the vitality and strength
of the West, including relations in the North Atlantic area,
have first priority, the problems of Asia are very important
and the Western Powers must maintain their position in the
East while building in the West; and (e) the West must make
it clear in presenting any action taken to increase western
strength that no aggressive intent existse Foreign Ministers
Bevin and Schuman approved this statement of the situation.
Turning to the problems of the UN with particular re-
ference to China, Acheson declared that the question of Chinese
representation was linked to major matters of US foreign policy.
Because the US considers the USSR now possesses a position
of dominance in China, from which it threatens all Southeast
Asia, the US believes admission of the Chinese Communists
to the UN is potentially more dangerous than a continued
impasse in the UN, Acheson indicated that the -US does not
intend to 'take any positive action which would enable the UK
to win a UN majority for admission of the Chinese Communists.
The three foreign ministers then agreed that the Chinese ad-
mission question would be left until one of 'the governments
informed the other two of its interest in re-opening the issue.
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1. Western Ministers discuss world situation--In their London
discussion of the world situation, Secretary of State Acheson
set forth before Foreign Ministers Bevin and Schuman the
following considerations as deserving strong emphasis
(a) the USSR, by pouring much of its national income into
preparedness, has created so wide a gap between its readi-
ness and that of the West that immediate action is now re-
quired on an interim, or mid-term, plan as drawn up by the
western defense ministers; (b) it is urgently necessary to
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2. Us -position on New Guinea roblem--The Department of
State has instructed US Ambassador Jarman in Canberra
to inform the Australian Government that, although the US
believes a trusteeship under Dutch administration to be a
generally favorable solution of the New Guinea problem,
the US neither supports nor opposes the recent Netherlands
Cabinet decision to continue administering New Guinea as
a dependent territory, Jarman is also to express the view
that the US believes it can best contribute to a solution by
refraining from lending support to either party and by a-
waiting the results of present efforts of the Netherlands
and Indonesia to reach a settlement.
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