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QUESTION
Mr. President, during the past week, experts from the United States,
Canada, France, Italy and the United Kingdom have been meeting in
Washington in preparation for the Ten Nation Disarmament Conference.
Could you tell us whether the United States has tabled for consideration
its disarmament proposals?
ANSWER
We have not tabled any United States disarmament proposals at
these meetings, since we are still in process ot developing disarmament
policy. I might add that these meetings you mentioned--which by the way
are continuing in one form or another=-have permitted a useful exchange
of general views on the objectives and scope of the Western disarmament
proposals. Through these meetings, we expect in time to develop a
unified Western position on disarmament.
QUESTION
Mr. President, is the recently submitted report by Mr. Coolidge
being used as a cuide in the formulation of our disarmament proposal?
ANSWER
The study which Mr. Coolidge completed, has been submitted to both
the Secretaries of State and Defense and is being used by them as they
see fit, to assist them in the development of disarmament policy to be
recommended to me.
QUESTION
Mr. President, could you tell us wnether the Coolidge study will
be made public?
ANSWER
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There was never any intention of making the Coolidge study public.
It was developed for internal use only by both Secretaries of State and
Defense to assist them in the development of our disarmament policy.