INCOMING TELEGRAM =Department of State PARSE ASmee "7 38 Action SAE Info 38 G SP C TO L SDA BUR UOP OLI DCL Rec'd: LONDON FROM: TO: tera oeGusPage: "Control: = 276 10:35 Secretary of State NO: APR IL eure 5293, APRIL 1, 1 PM is i Ny FOR STRAUSS FROM STASSEN USDEL DISARMAMENT NO, 70 NOTE 1, APPRECIATE VERY MUCH YOUR COMMENT LONDON 6816,_L ESPECIALLY FINAL PARAGRAPH THAT THERE WILL BE NO (REPEAT O) ANNOUNCEMENT PUR SEVERAL MONTHS OF NEWOCRIES_AND DECISTON CAN BE REVIEWED Al THAT TIME, ; | OCB 2. FOR YOUR FURTHER REFLECTION IN THE MEATIME AGREE THAT USTA ray LOD Nave AIR THERE WILL BE "GENERAL RECOGNITION IN DEPARTURE AREAS AND WITH PRESS THAT TESTS ARE FORTHCOMING", MY POINT I$ THAT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR WORLD AGITATION 1S LESS UNDER TWESE CIRCUMSTANCES THAN IT |S FOLLWING AN OFFICIAL GOVERMIMENTAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORTHCOMING TESTS, THEREFORE THE O FICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTSHOULD BEAT THE LATEST POSS IBLE~DATE ~ VEN THOUGHTHERE 1S GENERAL RECOGNITION IN DEPARTURE ARMAS, — 3. RESISTING THE "PRESSURE FOR OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMEN TH IN THE U.S, SEEMS TOBF ADESIRABLE ALTERNATIVE TO™ AE NECESSITYOF OF RESISTING MONTHS OF HEAVY PRESSURE FRON OTHER POSTPONE THE-EORMALLYANNOU NCED JR COUNIRLES TO CALL OFF_OR TESTS, THE CURRENT JAPANESE BRITISH SITUATION IS AN EXAM. PLE, THIS MORNING?S LONDON TIMES EDITORIAL CONCLUDES "THE ONUS IS ON THOSE WHO MAKE EXPLOSIONS TO SATISFY THE WORLD AT 4, LARGE OF THEIR SAFETY", WH | TNEY ALR DECLASSIFIED Authority me fF-1 2995 NLE Te SPELT | SONIA BT ee eee ee rnd. ~ - : af y cts ge Va og “gee mule ad a ai rd a * dee ' ou? By UNLESS "UNCLASS! FIED" REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY S$ PROHIBITED.

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