COMMENTS ON ' DRAFT ANNEX A OF 1 OCTOBER REVIEW OF NSC 68 PROGRAMS.'

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: September 4, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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DATE: a ep . 1951
SUBJECT: C`o- umients on )':draft Annex A of 1 October Review of NSC 6 Progr^.ms."
Your draft is an excellent one; I am especially pleased
,:ri th the "conclusive nature' of yo !r Conclusions (Sed IV). The
;in ;le major change which I would like for - ou to consider, if
this late hour Tou a e able to render c' ian? es to the drat t
i aims to the section on I ATO (Sec II) . f
In evaluating; ~`ATO strength and will to fight you refer only
to the European situation. You made no reference to US rearmament.
T e latter is lLndoubtedly of greater significance in evaluating
power position of the West vis-a-vis the Commmniat orbit than is
the J .iropean situation.
I recommend that an additional paragraph; perhaps following
par. 27, be included to cover the US position in 1953. Since,
as an intelligence study, your draft should be concerned with
foreign affairs, you would probably only very briefly consider
trends in US arms_-nrients production and military strength. The
importance of these trends to the total ik:Jestern position
should then he emphasized, The influence of the US program
upon the European programs m ght also be included, along :rich the
_ dverso consequences of a US inflation a ion u
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ropean stab i lit r.
t. eh inclusion, we m~,Cht render an additional impetus
to apeedin the domestic rea_.? is ler_t nrograa~n. The speed of US
recc..i a ent see-,is to me equally as imnorta-rit as pushing US
orei^n arc. pro ^rams. I note that the second sentence of 1par.
111 1, i n effect, surima-rizes what I have in mind. The body of
: otrc discussion, however, overlooks this all-important factor.
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