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Papers, 1953-61
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Board that the course of action in subparagraph 4h-a simply mde explicit what had been implicit in our basic national-security policy
--paregraph 17 of NSC 5707/8--which read as follows:
" .eees-the United States should continue to provide to allies capable of using them effectively advanced weapons sys-
tems (including nuclear weapons systems less nuclear elements)."
Mr. Cutler pointed out that this provision obviously imolied that in
time of wer the United States would furnish to these capable allies
the necessary nuclear warherds for rapid use of the weapons. (Mr. Cutler wes thus taking issue with the point nade by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, that subparagraph 4h-a was not in consonance with paragraph 17
of our besic national security policy.)
Stating that he understood that Secretary Quarles had in
mind a solution to the problem of subparagraph 44-2, Mr. Cutler
celled on Secretary Quarles to make a statement.
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the other differences respecting this paragraph between the Departments
of State and Defense had now been reconciled.
He would therefore ac-
cept subrarecreph hea with the recommendation that the last sentence
be deleted, cn grounds that it did not constitute en important national
ebjective and that it was not pertinent to the rest of subperagraph hha,
This recazzendation, continued Secretary Quarles, also indicated the opposition of the Defense Department to the inclusion of subperagraph yheg +
es proposed by the Treasury Deparment.
Mr. Cutler then called on Secretary Anderson to express the
views of the Treasury Departrcent as to subpsragrevh he
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Secretary
Anderson replied that all ‘he wished to say in defense of subparegraph
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The President said he wished to remind the Council that our
basic constitutional requirement was to provide for the national defense. He said he could detect an enalogy with the difficult British
Gecision not to provide Spitfires for the French when Hitler was on
the point of conquering France. This decision wes made on the basis
thet it was necessary to retain these aircraft in Britain to save
Britain itself from the Nazis, end it vas the right decision. On
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hhc was thet the United States had, after all, only so much resources
to essist its allies all over the world. If the French should now insist on spending millions of dollers on a program to produce nuclear
yeapons independently, we should eccordingly re-exenine our policy toward France. The French make more money per capita than any other Free
World ceuntry except the United Stetes. There wes no reason, therefore,
that we should not bear dow on them with regerd to this great expenditure for nuclear weapons.
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