https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/fd5f7f1611be5d81b67b95163b52d300.pdf 807f2543bd3e01c645fe62c18695a896 PDF Text Text Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information A * BEST AVAILABLE COPY , _k « November 10, 1949, WVm ***& « mM ffffitT Minutes of . a c t i n g held i n tha irlvy CounoLl Chaabar on icdnesday, November 9, 1949, at 11 a.a. Present; The Prime ISlalater - (Hr, S t , imurent) Tha Ht. tion. CO* Howe .. . . Heeney ^Sfcu C.J. aokonxle ^-**£ Air Vlaa Marshal f .ft. u l n a r " * f e > James Oeorgt, Aa ting Secretary 1. Tripartita Elssusalo-- f- 7 ~ .(*/*. U w TM.ni*in I t w i m i i i thai Mr, wrong's telegram * A - * M 7 of Ootober 21 should be taken aa tha agenda for tha seating, aa i t covered point by point tha anJor attention* of poller en whieh the Canadian delegation t o the t r i p a r t i t e dieeuaeiena (whieh began in ^aoaiagton during the third and fourth weeh of September) avoid require at leant the preliminary viewe of the .overnment before the diaaaaaiona reaume, probably towards the ead ef November. The Prime minister said that he aaaumed we were prepared to accept the principle that tha United Statea should have prinary responsibility for weapone* production and that ua great a stockpile of bombe aad fissionable material an possible should be achieved by the combined efforts of the three cou^triee. .Is waa agreed, after i t had bean noted that there were Ifferenoes between the United statea aad the United kingdom aa to whether production f a e i l i t l e a ia the United Kingdom ahoald be expanded bat that neither the ani ted s t a t e s nor the United Kingdom would interpret the agreement aa implying that the Canadian Government ahoald mot eoatiaae I t a experimenta with heavy water r e a o t v s whieh had already proved suoh a valuable research Instrument. mk 8, Saw Materials Tha prepoeal that the ami ted tates should reeeive aot leaa thaa 90 per eeat of available raw matorlala during the next five years waa then aeaaidered and It waa noted that, under the present U.s.-U,K, agreement, Canadian raw materials ware not aubjeet to allocation by the Combined Development Agency. However, our production estl;aatea had been tabled during the September discussions in ^eehingtoa aad h.d been taken into aeeoaat i a the general eatisate made of the a v a i l able supplies and in the production f a c i l i t i e s In relation to military requirements, i t wae agreed that the United -Utas propoeal oould be accepted, ae sufficient raw materlala would be available from Canadian production to aup^ly tha needa our present or projected ChaU River p i l e s , i a addition to f u l f i l l i n g our estimated contribution to United htates etooxa of raw stater l a i n, 3, Information i r . MasXeaxle aad Dr, Balaam* espialaed that the proposed partnership would give the United Klngtsm f u l l information on weapon production aad ttevelopmeat. Aa we were not interested in these phases of atomic energy, we would not • • • • » 000197 �Document disclosed under the Access to information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la loi sur faeces a i'informatio BEST AVAILABLE COPY - *?- - need to have oar scientists integrated in those eaetioao of the U»3. or U.K. projects, but we would want full co-operation la the field of basic research aad Intelligence, aad we ehould be given aooese to information concerning the ailitary eharee* terlstloo of the latest bomb types for our military aad civil defenoe planning* Thla wao ojorood. 4, tormgo ii.o rlna l i a i s t e r wondered whether the u.a. o f f i c i a l s responsible L e for f o r 1proposing that Canada should undertake to store bombs for the U.K. had not been labouring under a mlaeomeeptloa aa t o Canada*a constitutional poaltioa thst we should be at pains to oorreot. Hr. ftobertsoa added that their proposal barera they knew of that there might be a fallacy a l s o wee there now amy valid reaeoa why stored l a the U.K.T they might have thought of the Hovls t explosion and in their e t r e t e g l e approach} seme bombe should not he I r. :.olf.n.q then said Ike! go tnou^i*t tad 9« . •aeroach ba« beea StXvahal rather fee un ijsupaojlotlaa of tha delaya that might oceur before the ui*, oould declare war because of their constitutional proeeas, aad alao, possibly, beoauae tha U.S, representatives were aware of tho U,£, government'a fears af the unreliability of the U,£. and believed that the U.K. Oovernment might f e e l more eeeure l f their bombs were stored in Canada lnstssd of the U.S., l a spite of the North Atlantic Treaty, The U.S. military representatives, in addition, would not be displeased to see aa arrangement made whereby the U.A, would be free to use some bombe i a the Interval before Congress had declared war. r. itvna? su^eatsu luA l t might ut. wore aooeptauie t e Canadian public opinion l f we were l a a pooltion te explain that we ehould not be eterlag bombs only for the use of the U.K. but that euoh otorege waa im ear owa interest aa well aa part of tha Joint defease r. we lh*g a*Uu ah*.*, SO SSl1< see no reason mhy. If l-io ••.-. ' .iv^ijuahi. v ore to nat aa M SlMfej bOJlls] . u- tJnOJSj in Canada, wo should not agree, ae we had, for instance, ta tha atorage of p l a r l t e . Air Vice *arahal i l l l a r explained thst tho U.S. military representatives in -ashington during the September dleouaalona had aeea am d i f f i c u l t y i a agreeing to U.n. t i t l e to bombe whioh might he stored la Canada, and indeed they had lndioatod that the U,s, might consider eeadlag some bombs to the U.K. before their production started. % ttat „ u?mtfzfl?sg rag iir t arate s sar nor to uae them. The bombe w i l l be owned by the U,S, aad the . . ; we ehould l e t them maxo the plana to uae the bombs i n accordance with etretegle eonoepte ogreed under the Xorth Atlantic Treaty Organisation; i f the U.S, aad tha . . veramenta found i t desirable t e store some bombs i a Caaada, they could aek us t e de so snd an agreement might be werfcea out, eat l t would be better not to have Canada designated, In the agraement t a be negotiated now between the three countries, as a custodian of bombe for the other gwo governments, . . . .5 000198 �Document disclosed under the Access to Informi Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a • m - 3 - aaaao Tho *»lmo qjUta.t.^ observed that we ehould avoid the aae of the expression " launching si tee** aa applied to airflelde la Canada, He eseumed that all that would be required of us ia thla connection would he the maintenance of certain airfields for possible use by our North Atlentlo alliea. Air Vice Marahal -illar eald that during the Washington talks the U.S. military representatives had apeoiflcally atated that they did not anticipate a requirement for any bases la Caaada from which to mount atomio attacks; there might, however, be a need for airflelde of auffielent size to eerve for emergeaay landinge oa atomio bomber routes, A. Holatlonshlp of ittoaie Agreement, io forth Atlantic Treaty r. ^aeney stressed the desirability, la our foreign relatione, of publicly netting our propoeed partnership within the fraaeworu of the North Atlantic Treaty aad explaining ta our Treaty partnara that what we were undertaking waa a specialised function for the moot effleieat production of the moot potent otratoglo weapon of the alliee. He thought we ehould be particularly careful to assuage Frenoh susceptibillties, aa tha frenoh were constently in feer of a strategic concept being agreed between the J.&. aad the U.S, Oovernmenta whioh would not place sufficient emphaoia upon the defenoe of the continental ooaatrieo of > eotern Barope. It waa ogreed that Insofar aa poeslble thie important consideration should be borne ia mind aat only ia drawing up the terme of the agreement but in mwmry public eteteaaat about the pert nor chip, T. Registration with the United Watloaa The i rime ?. lnlstar questioned whether the propoeed partnership need take the form of e new agreement aad he coxed whether lt would not be poeslble to consider the partnarahip aa part of our north Atlantic arrangements whieh and already beea registered with the United Nations la aocordaaoe with article 102 of the Charter, Mr. .iobertaaa pointed out that thie course of aetloa might not be feasible, depending aa the foam la whioh the . . Administration felt it necessary to secure the approval of Congraea, If, for thla purpoae, they had to refer publicly ta aa "agrees, o a f , wa might yry well have to register with the United nations some general anodyne form of agreement to whieh the eeoret operative elaueea oould be related but not discussed publicly or registered with the United Natloae, ae they would form part of the ancillary planning, 8, PeleantIon The iTins minister eald that it waa not aeeaaeary to deolde at present the composition of the Canadian delegation to the Washington dlaeuesleme bat that when we had the agenda aad had agreed waa ehould go, he would inform the Cabinet. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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