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Council had recently rejected a similar proposal when it had discussed
our policy with respect to Australia and New Zealand. The feeling had
been that there could be little use in creating stockpiles in Austra-
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The President stated, apropos of General Cutler's last remark, thet he seemed not as confident as some other members of the
National Security Council as to what the future might bring. Could
we not well change our minds on this matter? The President pointed
out that stockpiles of materials in such places as Australia would
have been very helpful to the United States in 1941.
After further discussion as to the wisdom of including or
excluding the word "now", General Cutler succeeded in inducing the
Council to accept, in place of the term "now", the phrase "in the
foreseeable future".
With respect to the seventh issue--to wit, greater use of
the Organization of American States to provide a collective security
framework for U. S&S. bases in Latin America--General Cutler read the
Planning Board recommendation as follows:
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"Any additional or more substantial collective security
framework for Latin America would, on balance, be infeasible and undesirable at this time. Consideration should
be given to bringing the West Indies Federation into the
OAS at an appropriate time."
The above recommendation was adopted without change.
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Secretary Herter, however, cautioned on the hostility to
the United States of one or two of the leading candidates for political leadership in the new West Indies Federation.
As to the eighth issue--criminal jurisdiction over American
forces stationed on foreign bases--General Cutler read the Planning
Board recommendation as follows:
"The objective of the United States should be to obtain,
where feasible, criminal jurisdiction arrangements, with
all countries in which U. S. forces are stationed now or
in the future, at least as favorable as those contained
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should not be stationed on foreign territory unless protected by criminal jurisdiction arrangements at least
equal in substance to the NAITO Status of Forces Agreement, except on determination by the Secretaries of State
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