Record of Meeting During the Cuban Missile Crisis
PARTICIPANTS Secretary Rusk Under Secretary Ball Ambassador Thompson Deputy Under Secretary Johnson Assistant Secretary Martin Leonard C. Meeker Secretary Dillon Secretary McNamara Deputy Secretary Gilpatric Assistant Secretary Nitze General Taylor […]
Statement of Policy by the National Security Council on Basic National Security Policy
NOTE BY THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY to the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL on BASIC NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY References: A. NSC 162 and NSC 162/1 B. NSC Action Nos. 853, 868, 886, 926 […]
United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68)
Source: NSC 68, United States Objectives and Programs for National Security [Document 85], The Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, National Security Affairs, Vol. I, Foreign Economic Policy (Washington, […]
Draft of Plan of Action for South Vietnam
1. Analysis of the present situation. The situation in South Vietnam is deteriorating. Even before the government sank into confusion last week, the course of the war in South Vietnam […]
Dumbarton Oaks
PROPOSALS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 1There should be established an international organization under the title of The United Nations, the Charter of which should contain provisions […]
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods
This Conference at Bretton Woods, representing nearly all the peoples of the world, has considered matters of international money and finance which are important for peace and prosperity. The Conference […]
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva
WASHINGTON, October 9, 1931-6 p. m. 73. Consulate’s 162, October 8 [7], 5 p. m. A memorandum in writing containing the following message from me dated as of October 5, […]
The Archangel Expedition
The whole heart of the people of the United States is in the winning of this war. The controlling purpose of the government of the United States is to do […]
Letter from the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Secretary of State (1917)
On the 7th of November the action of the “bolsheviki” took place, having for its result the arrest of the members of the Provisional Government. On the 11th General Manikovski […]
The Allies’ Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points
The Allied Governments have given careful consideration to the correspondence which has passed between the President of the United States and the German Government. Subject to the qualifications which follow […]