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1. I saw Cherwell at lunch on Friday, and reminded
him of the importance we attached to the tripartite
pattern in atomic energy cooperation which had been pretty
faithfully observed from the wartime days up to this last
Bermuda meeting. We had been concerned by the narrowly
bilateral language which Sir Winston Churchill had used
in his speech In Parliament in December, and hoped that
the United Kingdom for their part would keep our position
in mind. I told him of Swlnton's conversation with the
Secretary of State for External Affairs and his assurance
*tt we would have an opportunity of commenting on the
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k>posed history of cooperation in the atomic energy field
ifore it was published. I went a little further and said
iat I thought any public record of what had froa the
feglnnlng been a three-cornered association should, be
Assued under the auspices and imprimatur of the three
governments concerned, and not of the United States and
United Kingdom alone, as one might have gathered was contemplated from Sir Winston Churchill's speech.
2. Cherwell said that he had tried to persuade the
Prime Minister to omit from his speech any reference to
the proposed history of Anglo-American cooperation in the
atomic energy field, primarily because he thought it unwise
to promise something that might not in fact be performed;
he feared it might be found that it was not practicable
or expedient for security or diplomatic reasons tc publish
a full account of the arrangements which had governed
allied cooperation in this field during the war ar.d since.
If this should turn out to ba the case the governments
Involved would be Inviting pressure oa themselves by
promising publication of a text which had not yet been
established. He said the idea of a public statement was
the Prime Minister's own and went back to a conversation
he had had in Washington some years ago tflth Senator Brlen
McMahon, who had told him that he would never have st>onsore
the rigid legislation that bsars his name if he had himself
known about the secret assurances of cooperation in th©
development of atomic energy which had been exchanged
between th© American, United Kingdom and Canadian Governments.
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Churchill thought and still thinks that the publication
of an authoritative account of these arrangements would
be a helpful and perhaps Indispensable preparation for the
kind of revision of the McHahon Act which will be required
if really close cooperation between the partner countries
in this field is to be restored.
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Cherwell said he had shied away from th© suggestion
that he and Strauss should sit down and work out a joint
draft. As matters stand Strauss has undertaken to do a
first draft which is to be sent to Cherwell and the United
Kingdom authorities for their comments„ Cherwell agreed
that lt would b© helpful and appropriate to have Canadian
comments at an early stage In the drafting. He assumed
that Kr. Howe would probably wish C. J. MacKensIe who has
been associated with the combined arrangemsnts from the
beginning, to have a look at the proposed publication from
a Canadian standpoint. For his part, although he was no
longer a member of the cabinet, he felt that the official
history of the tripartite understandingo and arrangements
should con© out under th© auspices of the three governments involved,
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i think I should probably try to get the United
Kingdom Government committed to the proposition that tha
history, if and when it appears, should be Issued under
the authority of the three governments. When this is firm
the question of Amsrican concurrence, which should not
present difficulties, could be taken up. In the meantime
I do not suppose It matters very much whether Strauss's
first draft goes direct to Cherwell, with a copy communicated to us for our comments, or whether it goes simultaneously to the United Kingdom and Canadian Governments.
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Secretary of State for External Affairs to High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom, 31 Dec. 1953, LAC, RG 25, vol. 5957, file no. 50219-AF-40, part 1.
Anglo-American
Atomic Energy Cooperation
High Commissioner
Lord Cherwell
McMahon Act
W.H. Barton
Winston Churchill