410. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to Secretary of State Rusk0
The President has read and approved your memorandum of July 16th1 on next steps with South Africa re Security Council meeting, subject to the following comments:
The President thinks the statement in paragraph 1(f) should be reframed as follows:
It is our current expectation that we will wish to stop further arms shipments to South Africa after the end of 1963, but we have not yet decided when to make this intention public.
Our discussion with the South Africans should be in the context of our conviction that the course we are adopting represents the minimum changes necessary if we are to be able to assist in preventing much less satisfactory results, from South Africa’s own point of view. It should be emphasized that we intend to oppose Chapter VII measures and that our own suspension of arms shipments will not be of critical importance to South Africa since we are not a prime source for South Africa in this field at present.
The President wishes it made clear that in our judgment it would be best for both sides to maintain our existing cooperation in other fields.
- Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, South Africa. Confidential.↩
- Document 408.↩
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