768.5 MAP/7–1250: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom 1
186. Fol is summary substance of similar Aides-Mémoire presented Jul 10 to Brit and Fr Embs Wash2 on joint planning of mil assistance to be rendered Yugo in eventuality envisaged NSC 18/4, para 27b.
Begin summary US Govt has studied with interest Fr comments recd Feb 233 and Brit comments recd May 24 in reply US Aide-Mémoire re mil assistance to Yugo in certain contingencies and notes pleasurably similarity US, Fr and Brit approach. For info ur govt there is attached US mil staff study analysis and estimate Yugo mil situation.5
US Govt agrees deliveries equipment to NAP6 countries shld have top priority, but as there is agreement polit and strategic considerations may warrant acceding to a Yugo request for mil aid there shld be on receipt such request tripartite discussions to determine scope and nature mil supplies which shld be made available.
Fol to Brit only:
US Govt notes Brit study recd under cover Brit comments is in accord US mil staff study referred to above.
[Page 1433]Re Brit suggestion for joint mission to Yugo to study Yugo requirements before any aid is advanced, US Govt of view that while final recommendations for aid to Yugo shld be by qualified technical personnel regular service atts at Belgrade of participating countries wld be preferable channel for submission interim data to Govts concerned.
End to Brit only.
In view present positions Brit, Fr and US Govts, US Govt suggests advantageous for small group Brit, Fr and US officials meet immed in Wash at technical working level at intervals whenever one participant considers changing circumstances warrant, to discuss present views of their govts and coordinate their planning in event future determination that YuGovt shld be accorded certain mil assistance. Further suggested this group cld be composed of several officials from US Depts State and Defense and that Brit and Fr Govts might designate several counterpart officials from among their respective Wash missions.
Similar communication as well as copy US mil staff study referred to above being addressed Brit (Fr) Emb Wash. End summary.
- This telegram was repeated to Belgrade as 26 and to Paris as 171.↩
- Neither printed; filed separately under 768.00/7–1050.↩
- See telegram 579, February 6, from Paris, p. 1363.↩
- See the memorandum of conversation by Campbell, May 2, p. 1410, and telegram 2074, May 4, to London, p. 1412.↩
- The undated, 18–page, Department of State–Department of Defense staff study under reference here, not printed, presented tentative estimates of the probable Yugoslav requirements for military supplies under each of the possible courses of Soviet action discussed in document NSC 18/4, November 17, 1949, and the extent and manner by which such supplies could best be made available to Yugoslavia. The study concluded that should Yugoslavia request military aid from the Western powers, the United States in conjunction with other Western powers could provide and deliver sufficient supplies to maintain current Yugoslav military strength and equipment at a level sufficient to resist all but a Soviet attack. However, in the case of an all-out Soviet attack only enough supplies could be provided and delivered as would provide for a defense of the mountainous region of Southwest Yugoslavia (S/ISA Files, Lot 52–19, Policy–12.272–NSC–Yugoslavia). The S/ISA files contain records of the Office of the Director, International Security Affairs, Department of State, covering the years 1949–1951. They form a part of FRC Acc. No. 62 A 613.↩
- North Atlantic Pact.↩