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Mr. Allen pointed out that his proposal did not contemplate merely preventing further immigration of Jews into Israel.
This course of action would be balanced by other courses of action
to make an acceptable package.
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General Cutler pointed out that Secretary
Quarles would have to leave the meeting
presently to go to Capitol Hill, and that
before Secretary Quarles left he would like
to read to the Council the record of action
on "Priorities for Ballistic Missiles and
Satellite Programs" which the President had
recently approved. For discussion of this
item, see the next agenda item.)
General Cutler then asked the Council to direct its atten-
tion to the two other splits in NSC 5801.
The first of these oc-
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curred in the first sentence of paragraph 31, which he read as fol-
lows:
"Seek to maintain the United Nations Truce Supervis~
ory Organization ve and the United Nations EBuer-
gency Force (UNEF) /and possibly expand their missions/*
until such time as major differences between Israel
and her neighboring states have been resolved and the
likelihood of armed conflict has been significantly
reduced.
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General Cutler explained briefly why the Joint Chiefs of Staff were
opposed to an attempt to expand the missions of the United Nations
Emergency Force, and why the State Department believed that such an
expansion would be desirable.
In further explanation of the views
of the Joint Chiefs, General Twining pointed out that the nations
which had originally been interested in the UNEF at the time of the
Suez controversy did not seem interested any more. Secretary Dulles
commented that he doubted whether any significant expansion of the
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mission of UNEF was likely or that it would be likely to undertake
new tasks.
On the other hand, it might be desirable to expand the
mission of UNEF to the pint that the UNEF could be stationed on
both sides of hostile borders rather than being confined, as now,
to the Arab side of the border.
Secretary Dulles paid tribute to
the valuable service which the UNEF had performed in the past. General Cutler suggested language which met the Secretary of State's
point and which was agreeable to the other members of the Council.
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