Jeere Acril 20, 1950 -~-e2- Derry in regard to the -xiste? ge s It was appearrent thet a feafeeling of ursency seminar 7t Breelrnaven., Largsen's fecling evidently was reed; to “evart ‘for their Acme states anc that ‘the etudent about communities spatula 2+ furnisheu “ith es rete answers to as many cf the provlems > he had enumerated in detcil asc “sossitle and that if it were not possitle te sive such answers at that time thet tke Federal Government could te subject to severe criticisn for net having figured all oF thec eth ings out in advance of starting the actual treiaing »regr wm. TI 4 was ast expressed but crobebly some -f the .JSEB people felt that if such criticism eventuatec, subsequent training srograms of their own would thereby be jeocaréized. Thus the imprecsicn was given that the tomeaiate purpose sf this meeting was that of collecting quickly from a variety cf interestec sources opinions ona multitude of subjects related to radichgical defense which could be Aistilleé and transnitted to the Brookhaven students by means of 1! approaching seminar. Larsen made the noint that the policies te ve given to *he Breckhaven seminar shculd be released similtanecusly to the students in the cther courses and vresumably to states which were not represented at any cf the courses. Larsen left she meeting fairly early (mot returning for the Later sessicns) and the Chairmanshi- of it was assumeé tr Dr. Kiefer. the Giscussion sregressed and conments sade by varicus of the narticipants indice ted thet vhey also shared the feeling, As exoressed acove, as tc the immediate pgursose of the aeeting, Kiefer emonasized but in addition to the immecists need for information, NSEB was desirous of drawing upon Suc agencies represented for help in solving all of the proolens which hai teen set forth. In she later stages cf the meeting, particulerly ine second day, the atmosonere of great urgency in <etting Tinal answers te the many complex problems was dispelled so acertcin extent. I pointed out thet many of the statements woie h were veing nade cuestioning the -ropriety of conducting the udcoaitoring courses at this time, the fact, for instance, that many staves did net have full-flecsed civil defence organizations or civil defense budgets and therefore there vas likelihood thet secondLevel courses might “ave to te delayed for an indefinite »eriod of time, Mad been raised by our own people in the training centers when the vrogremn was in the fornative stages; aevertheless, it had been agreed finelly ty both AgC and NERB representctives that it was worthwhile to maxe a start in the initial teaching training orogram so thet all activities woule not be in & stcte w suspended aninatim woile all planning was ~eing completed, orn on anticnel and gtete levels. I pointes out that the assunrtioa uhich seemed to be im-licit in the USK presentrtion, nemely, thet che state s, woon return of their reprecentatives Prox from the training crurses ‘ould inrediately start out 2 on second-level trnining anc cerhays .9 astrey in so doing because they id not Lave cLl of the enswers wa a] tie croolemgs wich were being bye fo VW ‘ now ARCHIVES