Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Africa and South Asia, Volume XI, Part 2

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Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the Under Secretary of State (Smith)¹

secret

[Washington,] March 4, 1953.

Reference:

• Letter for Secretary’s signature to Mr. Stassen setting up MSA budget figures.²

1. I do not wish to sign this letter as long as it carries the sum of $200,000,000 for India. I doubt that this amount is either justified by the facts or could be justified to the Congress.

2. I am returning this letter and some additional material that accompanied it³ to you with the request that the India figure be reduced. If such a reduction is against the best judgment of those in the Department who are concerned, I think the only thing we can do is to have a conference with the interested people.

3. If this amount for India is reduced, will this affect the proportionate amount allocated to Pakistan?

1. Secretary of State Dulles drafted this memorandum.
2. This letter has not been found in the Department of State files.
3. The additional material referred to was a memorandum dated Feb. 25 to the Secretary of State from Edwin M. Martin of S/MSA which has not been found in the Department of State files and Jernegan’s memorandum of Mar. 3, 1953, supra.