Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radish-Red Admiral. Wilson called in a whole task force of top Pentagon personnel for a blistering, table-thumping session which started with midday lunch and ended after 6 p.m. Frequently during the afternoon. Wilson tapped with thumb and forefinger on a memorandum written by Parks and Cutter which, like the U.P. story, described the Nautilus as a "test vehicle." But a radish-red Admiral Parks stoutly denied that he had leaked the story...
Despite the last-minute nervousness, the West knows what it wants at Berlin. A cogent State Department memorandum to U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe put the objectives roughly as follows: ¶ To reach agreement on a free, unified Germany, and thus open the way to a general European settlement. ¶ Failing that, to establish that U.S. proposals represent the only means of reestablishing a free, united Germany. ¶ To show that Western proposals on Germany form part of a program which takes into account security requirements of all Europe, and the Soviet Union too. ¶ To throw light on Soviet...
...interest to the President and you, I am attaching a detailed memorandum hereto concerning Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department...
...view of this fact, the interest expressed by the President and you in matters of this nature, and the seriousness of the charges against White in the attachment, I have made every effort in preparing this memorandum to cover all possible ramifications...
...Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Truman, flatly contradicted his old boss. Byrnes said that while he was Secretary of State he had personally discussed the FBI report with Truman on Feb. 6, 1946, and that the President was familiar with it. A memorandum in State Department files confirmed Byrnes's memory. Having read the FBI report, Byrnes had urged Truman to withdraw his nomination of White for the Monetary Fund post. After a hurried check with the Senate, said Byrnes, Truman learned that White had been confirmed that afternoon. Byrnes had three...