GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100050040-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 15, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Survey of London three-power meetings--In a summary
report on the three-power meetings in London, Secretary
of State Acheson expresses the view that progress has
been made toward reaching a better understanding of the
fundamental questions confronting the Western Powers, The
Secretary feels that this understanding will pave the way for
improved cooperation and more effective concerted action
in the future,
In his discussions with the British concerning the
UK position in the world and the US-UK relationship, Acheson
believes the following British preoccupations have emerged:
(a) an emphasis upon the Labor Party's domestic program
and British viability by 1952; (b) a desire for a "special
relationship" with the US; (c) a desire to maintain a Com-
monwealth-sterling area-world position as distinguished
from the role of an European power; (d) a resulting em-
phasis upon developing the NATO as an Atlantic community
"umbrella" as opposed to the French theory of developing
such strictly European organizations as OEEC; and (e) a
concern over divergencies in US-UK policy, such as has
been illustrated in the Chinese and colonial questions,
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