Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Western Europe and Canada, Volume VI, Part 1

Secretary’s Staff Meetings, lot 63 D 75, “April 1954”

No. 210
Notes of the Secretary’s Staff Meeting, Thursday, April 8, 1954, 9:15 a.m.¹

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April 8, 1954, 9:15 a.m.

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CSC Negotiations

3. Mr. Bonbright said that we were going into these negotiations without a completely coordinated US position:

(a) We did not know the position of Defense with regard to the $50,000,000 we recommended come out of end-item funds for a loan for the CSC. General Smith said that it was exceedingly difficult for Defense to find this information quickly since it involved an entire reprogramming of the end-item program.

(b) The Treasury Department was holding out against FOA and State in connection with certain uses of the CSC loan. EUR recommended that the Secretary call Humphrey to obtain his agreement to reserve his position until Monnet sets forth his case. The Secretary said that it would be very difficult for him to do anything about this before the 10:30 meeting. He believed, however, that Mr. Humphrey would receive considerable pressure from the negotiators themselves.

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1. Circulated as document SM N–219.