https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/733e6bc5a8af49118a7da873df440603.pdf c98ff988b1727de51d3dbf7b1eeb4d1c PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act ■ Please return to G. Matherzdltol*ecc4s***amon TELETYPE MESSAGE 9 From: THE CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES To: THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, February 4th, 1952. Originated by Wr png Authorized by ...... IA... .Time. . noon CHED DESPTT - Despatched by.....:..... ... -fims—. Ti2:///t7” Cypher (X ) or En clair ( ) THE APPROPRIATE SECURITY OR URGENCY PREFIXES, WHEN REQUIRED BY THE CONTENTS, SHOULD BE TYPED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MESSAGE / No. WA—WISER.23. . WISER - TOP SECRET. Following for Heeney from Wrong. Begins: My Wiser message No® 22 of today. 1. Arneson also referred to the question of consultations on the world situation in his talk with Ignatieff. He said that the British Embassy had informed the State Department that their paper on atomic warfare, summarized in my Wiser Letter No. 8 of July 21st, 1951, has been revised and that the Embassy was now prepared for a I believe this meeting is to take place tomorrow further meeting. in order to permit General Bradley to attend before he leaves for NATO meetings in Europe. / 2. This strengthens my opinion that we ought to seek a further meeting ourselves within a fortnight or so. No meeting has taken The development of new types of atomic place since the end of July. weapons may have modified some of the assumptions on which the think- ing here and in the U.K. was based, including possibly the basic assumption that these wapan weapons were unlikely, to be employed except against the Soviet Union in the course of general war. I therefore now think that it is unwise to let the arrangements for consultation lapse, although I doubt that attempt should be made to put them on a regular basis, such as a meeting each month. 3. At our discussion/ last week In Ottawa I gathered that you shared this view and that I could expect to receive instructions soon on the questions which I might bring up. I ought, however, to be able to comment on the proposals of the Department of Defense discussed in my preceding message before I request a further meeting of consultation. hhw.gm Ends. , 00300 � 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW16712 Title A name given to the resource WashDC to External, WA-WISER 23 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 14-Feb-52 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wiser Consultations, RG25-B-2, Volume number: 3094