STANDBY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS FOR DELIVERY IN THE EVENT OF A BREAKDOWN IN ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS AT KAESONG

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• Document Release Date: March 7, 2003
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• Publication Date: September 4, 1951
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to DCI DATE: 4 September 1951
SUBJECT: Standby Presidential Address for Delivery in the Event
of a Breakdown in Armistice Negotiations at Kaesong
1. Because the White House draft spilled into a speculative discus-
sion of possible communist moves, I passed the text on to ONE for comment.
Those comments (a copy attached) were passed sddirectlytto David
when
at the White House on Saturday morning, September
the big bust might come, we were reluctant to sit on the item over the
weekend. Lay's office was advised.
2. I was too preoccupied with an NSC paper to append my own comments.
They would, however, have followed this line:
Were this draft mine, I would have leaned more heavily on the implica-
tions of further aggression in Korea. For while the Soviets could con-
ceivably have miscalculated our willingness to defend Korea in June of
1950, the parallel does not hold true fifteen months later. Thus it is
impossible for the communists to initiate a new offensive without first
spitting, us deliberately in the eye. This would certainly seem to indicate
a willingness to risk an extension of war. For certainly the communists
cannot now underestimate our resolution to_stan! ground in the East. If
this be true, then the American people ought to be alerted to the even
more present danger that would come with a reakoff at Kaesong.
Colonel,, UbJff
Assistant to the Director
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