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- a letter from the
President asking for more time. The President approved the dispatch
of the letter to Vance.
Secretary Rusk said the Greeks told the Cypriots that the Turks
are bluffing ..
The President said it also appears that the Russians want to see
- this
was the first time the North Koreans knew that the ship would be in
t..'1e area.
Three thi.'1.gs are clear:
1. It was a conscious effort to provoke a response
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a lack of response.
2.
The Soviets knew of it in advance.
3. T!ie North Koreans have
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coast of Cyprus near Kyrenia., and to put three divisions a.shore in two
or three weeks. He believed that Turkey could control the Island in
that time.
ln sumni.ary, General Wheeler said that, if shootings started, the war
would probably begin with Turk
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time in three years you had in~ervened to check their course
to war. While
- of the large n umber
of North Korean Migs available to attack them .
General Wheeler sai d some p l anes were sent from Okinawa but that in
order to reach Wonsan they needed to refuel on route. From the time that
the commanders received the ship ' s call
- whoever comes
out on top. It is a messed up situation.
Secretary Rusk: We should not call off Ambassado r Taylor 's planned trip to
Washington. We have a strong t eam in the field and we don 2 t know when would be
a better time for him to come.
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ulti1-.;ate qt;cstion i3
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cecl. as!3umi ng
eviccnca !a ~:u.Ha
lnco ~clu:Jiv~ . ?.fa1:a:rios b~z ot;tmzin9~1;)..--~d tb~ Gr !:;'.l~1 cv-a1-y time ~o
! ar , and n~w h: tbl~kn h3 h e c S
- not recommend movlng US combat
unlh into or contiguou£ to the RVN at this time. Moreover, the intro•
ductlon o{ US combnt forces whkh would alt idle could well h ;,\ve 11.
p11ych9lo&ical impact on b oth friends and enernlee the reverse of tbftt
do aired
- that it backed no particular formula (such as enosis
or partition), while strongly urging the parties involved
to agree on a solution.
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Nevertheless, it was irrationally
accused by each side of supporting the other while at the
same time both called upon
- thought it would be useful to report to the NSC on a situation which was like
a time bomb that could blow up any time in the next six weeks . His report
largely reflected the State Department memorandwn submitted prior to the
meeting.
One of the principal
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remarkable s1ze and ·,~nthu~d.asn-.Can be compared only ~ th response and
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return cf Archbishop Makarios and his
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alo:1e,
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F . The Soviet man in the street is
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for the moment . . '
1. His cash income i s high , and he can ex
p e ct. further increases