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could be presented to the Congress. The Congress will not be content with generalities any more in the field of forelg military
assistance. .We have got to give them some specifle ideas about our
plans.
Secretary Dulles commented that the Congress alweys wanted
precision in these matters. Congress always wented
But you cannot run foreign policy on that kind of a
it was possible to plan on that basis. A situstion
in which the President would want to provide France
from his emergency funds.
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Reverting once again to the forthesoning meeting with the
legislative leaders in The White House, the President said he was
perfectly willing to emphesize the importence of Frence and the fluidity of the French situation in order to convince these legislative leaders that we conld not produce fixed conclusions at this time.
Nevertheless, we onght to be able to indicate some general figure
representing the costs which were likely to be involved.
Mr. Cutler said he believed he had sufficient guidance to
work out the problem of pcaregraph 41, and asked the Council to di-
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a proposal for a revision of subparagraph lhec, made by the Secretary
of the Treasury.
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