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SUBJECT: Discussion at the 357th Meeting
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Thursday, March 6, 1958
Present at the 357th Council meeting were the President of the United
States, presiding; the Vice President of the United States; the Secretary of State; the Acting Secretary of Defense; and the Director, Office of Defense Mobilization. Also present were the Secretary of the
Treasury; the U. S. Representative to the United Nations; Mr. Hatfield
Chilson for the Secretary of the Interior (Item 1); the Director, Bu-
reau of the Budget; the Director, National Science Foundation (Items 1
and 3); Capt. John H. Morse, Jr., USN, for the Special Assistant to the
President for Atomic Energy; the Federal Civil Defense Administrator;
Dr. Paul Johnston, Aeronautical Research Institute (Item 3); Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Director
of Central Intelligence; The Assistant to the President; the Deputy
Assistant to the President; the Director, U. 8. Information Agency;
fhe Director, International Cooperation Administration; the Special
Assistants to the President for Foreign Economic Policy, for Information Projects, for National Security Affairs, and for Science and Technology; the White House Staff Secretary; Assistant Secretary of State
Gerard C. Smith; the Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget; Dr. Edward
Purcell and Dr. Herbert York, President's Science Advisory Committee
(Item 3); Col. Vincent Ford, Staff of the President's Science Advis-
ory Committee (Item 3); Bryce N. Harlow, Administrative Assistant to
the President; the Executive Secretary, NSC; and the Deputy Executive
Secretary, NSC.
There follows a summary of the discussion at the meeting and the main
points taken.
1.
U. S. POLICY ON ANTARCTICA
(NSC Action No. 1730; NSC 5715/1; SNIE 11-3-58; NSC 5804; Memo
for NSC from Executive Secretary, same subject, dated March 5, 1958)
General Cutler briefed the Council in considerable detail
on the contents of the proposed new policy on Antarctica (NSC 5804),
pointing out at the outset, on a map, the different national claims
to portions of Antarctica. He set forth the views of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, which were in opposition to the proposed new policy because
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