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Memorandum by the Officer in Charge of Commonwealth Affairs (Horsey) to John Goodyear, Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State
Subject:
- Draft for your notes on State-JCS Meeting:1ANZUS Meeting
Mr. MacArthur gave an outline of the subjects discussed at the October 11 ANZUS meeting, using the attached paper.2 Admiral Davis said that, from draft minutes which he had seen, the Secretary had handled it splendidly. There was discussion of the Australian-New Zealand proposal to reactivate the ANZUS Military Representatives. Admiral Carney said that, since Australia and New Zealand were getting all the military consultation they needed already through staff liaison with CINCPAC, reactivation of the Military Representatives would be largely “window dressing”. He thought it was really a question of timing and that, in order not offered [offend] the Asians, it was preferable to wait until after Manila Pact organization was under way. Mr. MacArthur indicated general concurrence with this thought.3
- Held Oct. 15; see footnote 3, below.↩
- “Outline of ANZUS Meeting Discussions”, Oct. 11, not printed.↩
- In the Department of State draft memorandum on the substance of discussions at a Department of State-Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting, Oct. 15, MacArthur’s response is reported as follows: “Mr. MacArthur agreed that consideration should be given to this thought, particularly as to whether a meeting of the ANZUS military representatives might be postponed till after an interim meeting of the Manila Pact Council if such a meeting were held in January 1955. He referred briefly to the Philippines. He noted that the Philippines also liked to have meetings of the Philippine-U.S. Council as well as of the military representatives of the two countries which established in a sense an agreement for having similar meetings of ANZUS representatives.” (State-JCS Meetings, lot 61 D 417)↩