EXTRACTS FROM MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD REGARDING MR. DULLES' BRIEFING OF MR. TRUMAN, 12 AUGUST 1958

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• Publication Date: August 12, 1958
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EXTRACTS FROM MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD REGARDING MR. DULLES'
BRIEFING OF MR. TRUMAN, 12 AUGUST 1958
6. The Director made it clear that Khrushchev's demand for a
meeting of the General Assembly on the Mid-East problem was a return to
earlier resolutions, in one of which the U.S. itself had proposed to
refer the Mid-Eastern problem to the General Assembly. Khrushchev's
shift in tactics following the visit to Peiping did not mean an
abandonment of the request for a summit conference. The Director
developed the significance of Khrushchev's visit to Peiping in the con-
text of a Sino-Soviet desire for a summit conference in which the
Chinese Communists would have an insistent voice. When the Director
described the Chinese Communist military and political pressure on the
Chinese Nationalist position in the Taiwan Strait area, as part of the
coordinated moves by the Sino-Soviet bloc against the West, Mr. Truman
responded with concern.
7. Mr. Truman immediately asked about the situation in Korea and
on being told that the Chinese Communists had been withdrawing troops
from North Korea he said that he had wondered if the pressure against
Formosa might be a ruse or distraction to cover a revival of pressure
in Korea. He went on the express his doubts and suspicions concerning
the Chinese Communists and remarked on the difficulties which an
American has in understanding the Chinese. He sometimes thought he
should have permitted General MacArthur to go after them. Mr. Truman
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indicated his acute consciousness of the continuing danger to us arising
out of the Chinese Communist threat in the Far East. As before, on the
occasion of his briefing on 30 July, he alluded to his interest in
Sino-Soviet relations, adding this time that he was convinced the
Russians were afraid of the Chinese.
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