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65-01_14 - 1949-01-24

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January 24, 1949

MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT

The President agreed that the Department should immediately prepare a paper on our policy in Germany and regarding methods for clarifying responsibility. This paper would go through the National Security Council to the President. I stressed the desirability of having a clear statement of the presidential policy and the further desirability of having the responsibility for the interpretation and direction of that policy go through the Department of State to the Military Commander in Germany. The President would be constantly informed of the action taken and any person believing that his policy was not being executed would have access through the Security Council or directly to him. He authorized me to prepare such a paper.

Without committing himself to it, the President seemed favorably impressed with the idea.

Dean Acheson

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