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Memorandum from the Department of State to President Harry S. Truman Regarding the Korean Situation

Collection HST-DA: Dean Acheson PapersSeries: Secretary of State Files

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION

DATE: JUNE 25, 1950

SUBJECT: Korean Situation

Participants: The President, Secretary Acheson, Secretary Johnson, Secretary Matthews, Secretary Pace, Secretary Finletter, General Bradley, Admiral Sherman, General Vandenberg, General Collins

Copies (from State Dept.): Mr. Webb, Mr. Rusk, Mr. Hickerson, Mr. Jessup

The persons listed above met with the President for dinner at Blair House at 7:45 PM. Before dinner General Bradley read a memorandum prepared by General MacArthur in which he emphasized his views about the importance of denying Formosa to the Communists.

After dinner, the discussion began around the table. The President called on the Secretary of State to open the discussion. MR. ACHESON summarized the various problems which he thought the President should consider. The first point was the question of authorizing General MacArthur to supply Korea with arms and other equipment over and above the supplies of ammunition presently authorized under the MDAP program. He recommended that this be done. He suggested that our air cover should be used to aid in the evacuation of the women and children from Seoul and that our air force should be authorized to knock out northern Korea tanks or airforce interfering with the evacuation. He then mentioned the resolution adopted by the Security Council and suggested that consideration should be given to what

further

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Circular Letter Regarding the Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization ServiceSeries: Subject and Policy FilesFile Unit: Dispatch to American Consuls in China Regarding Trachoma Exclusion Policy - Problems With Immigration Laws, Chinese Americans

LAWS-GENERAL INSTRUCTION

Department of Commerce and Labor

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Washington

DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR No. 81

BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION

June 24, 1905.

To all officers charged with the enforcement of Chinese exclusion laws and all others

whom it may concern:

The attention of all officers charged with the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion

laws in directed to Department Circular No. 80, issued under date of June, 24, 1905. Under the provisions of the treaty and laws in relation to the exclusion of Chinese persons, officials of the Chinese government, and teachers, students, travelers for curiosity or pleasure, merchants, and their lawful wives and minor children, when in possession of the certificate required by section 6 of the act of July 5, 1994, must be allowed to come and go of their own free will and accord, and must be accorded all the rights privileges, and immunities and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.

Attention is also called to the fact that under rule 42a Chinese persons, other than

laborers, not supplied with the certificate provided for by section 6 of the act of July 5,

1884, may be permitted to pass through the United States in transit, upon producing to the officer in charge of the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws at the port of arrival, such reasonable proof may be required to satisfy him that a bona fide transit only is intended. Attention is especially called to the fact that Chinese persons, other than laborers, in possession of a section 6 certificate and not required to give bond, or furnish a photograph, or submit to the physical examination required by the Bertillon system of identification.

The purpose of the Chinese exclusion laws is to prevent the immigration of Chinese

laborers and not to restrict the freedom of movement of Chinese persons belonging to the exempt classes; and in determining whether Chinese persons are laborers or members of the exempt classes officers charged with the enforcement of the laws are cautioned to act with discretion. While laborers must be strictly excluded, the law must be enforced without harshness, and unnecessary inconvenience or annoyance must not be caused such persons are entitled to enter the United States. Chinese persons whose appearance or situation clearly indicate that they do not belong to the class of laborers must be treated with the same consideration extended to members of any other nationality, and they are not under any circumstances to be subjected to unnecessary surveillance.

The Department holds that the purpose and intent of the Chinese exclusion laws are

to absolutely prevent the coming to the United States of laborers, skilled or unskilled. The certificate provided for under section 6 of the act of 1884, when viseed by the indorsement of the diplomatic representatives of the United States in the foreign country from which the certificate issues, or of the consular representatives of the United States at the port or place from which the person named in the certificate is about to depart, is, by said section 6, made prima facie evidence of the facts set forth therein. The diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States have, by direction of the President, been instructed,

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before viseing any certificate, to strictly comply with all the requirements of that portion

of section 6 which provides as follows: *** and such diplomatic representative of consular representative whose indorsement is so required is hereby empowered, and it shall be his duty, before indorsing such certificate as aforesaid, to examine into the truth of the statements set forth in said certificate, and is he shall find, upon examination, that said or any of the statements contained therein are untrue it shall be his duty to refuse to indorse the same.

You are therefore instructed to accept as evidence of the right of the holders to land,

certificates viseed by the American diplomatic of consular representatives, when such certificated comply in all material respects with the requirements of the law, unless you have good reason to believe that any person presenting such a certificate is not the person to whom said certificate was issued or is not a member of any one of the exempt classes. Chinese persons of the exempt classes applying for admission to the United States properly certified are entitled to all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.

Any harshness in the administration of the Chinese exclusion laws will not for one

moment be tolerated, and any discourtesy shown Chinese persons, either laborers or of the exempt classes, by any officials of this Department will be cause for immediate dis-

missal of the offender from the service.

V. H. Metcalf,

Secretary.

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Hancock homestead. Settler from Benson, Minn. Little girl feeding chickens against background of house, buckboard wagon, and ridge of plateau, Sun River, Mont. By Lubken, June 23, 1910

Record Group 115: Records of the Bureau of ReclamationSeries: Photographs of Irrigation Projects

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Looking Northwest at State Capitol at Charleston, West Virginia, from Kanawha Street

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public RoadsSeries: Historical Photograph FilesFile Unit: States - West Virginia

Original caption: Looking northwest at State Capitol at Charleston, West Virginia, from Kanawha St. - bordering Kanawha River, at intersection with California Avenue. J. K. Hillers. June 22, 1935

A large neo-classical building topped with a dome.

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June 21, Summer Begins

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

Cartoonist Clifford Berryman welcomes the start of summer. Uncle Sam sits on the front porch with coat and hat off, sleeves rolled up, a fan in his hand and a cool drink at his side. Berryman's teddy bear lounges on the steps. Both watch a Spring, dressed as a flapper with parasol over her shoulder, walking away. Referring to the unusually warm spring season, or perhaps to the attractive and stylishly dressed Miss Spring herself, Uncle Sam comments: "I was glad to see her but she kept things boilin'."

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Memorandum from James T. Lynn, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to President Gerald R. Ford concerning a status report on the Indochina Refugee Resettlement Program.

Collection GRF-0056: White House Central Files Subject Files (Ford Administration)Series: White House Central Files Subject Files on National Security and DefenseFile Unit: ND 18-2/CO 1: Refugees/Indochina

EXECUTIVE

[handwritten] ND18-2/COI (Indochina)

FG 6-16

PR 5-2

R53 [end handwriting]

[Seal - illegible]

THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN...

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

JUN 20 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT

FROM: JAMES T. LYNN [handwritten signature/initials illegible] GR 7

SUBJECT: Status Report on the Indochina Refugee

Resettlement Program - June 20

Per your request, the first of the weekly Vietnam

Refugee status reports is attached. If you have any

comments or want any additional information, please let me know.

Attachment

[SEAL: GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY]

RECEIVED

JUN 24 1975

CENTRAL FILES

U.S. 33,622

3rd Countries 3,942

Repatriated -0-

Avg. Daily Releases:

Week ending 6/19: 749

Week ending 6/12: 796

In-Camp Population 91,707

Guam 23,693

Subic Bay 2,15

Wake Island 6,520

Other Asian Bases 315

Eglin AFB 4,518

Fort Chaffee 22, 232

Camp Pendleton 17,799

Indiantown Gap 14,479

PROBLEMS RESOLVED AND MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Typhoon Threat to Guam Refugee Population

In early June, the Task Force accelerated the outflow

of refugees from Guam. Before the end of June there will

be 10,500 refugees remaining on Guam and all will be housed

in barracks and other permanent facilities.

2. Federal Agency Processing of Security Clearances

The major initial bottleneck in processing was security

clearances for refugees. Today, 34,00 refugees in stateside

centers have full security clearances but do not have sponsors.

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Arizona (BB39) At Launch Approaching End of Ways

Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of ShipsSeries: Naval History Photographs

A crowd watches the launch of a large battle ship from the Brooklyn Navy yard. 

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New Jersey - Atlantic City

Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air ForcesSeries: "Airscapes" of American and Foreign AreasFile Unit: New Jersey - Atlantic City

This photograph shows Atlantic City, N.J. from the air. A long pier sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean.  The beach and boardwalk are visible, as are the many buildings of the city and an amusement park.

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Letter from Thomas Jefferson in Paris, to John Jay, Secretary of Foreign Affairs

Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional ConventionSeries: Papers of the Continental CongressFile Unit: Letters from Thomas Jefferson

9

Sir Paris June 17.1785

I had the honour of addressing you on the 11th. of the last month by

young Mr Adams who sailed in the packet of that month. That

of the present is likely to be retarded to the first of July if not

longer.

On the 14th of May I communicated to the Count de Viergennes

my appointment as minister plenipotentiary to this court and

on the 17th. delivered my letter of credence to the king at a private

audience and went through the other ceremonies usual on such

occasions.

We have reason to expect that Europe will enjoy peace ano-

ther year. The negociations between the Emperor & United Nether-

lands have been spun out to an unexpected length, but there

seems little doubt that they will end in peace. Whether the exchange

projected between the Emperor & Elector of Bavaria, or the preten-

sions of the former in his line of demarcation with the Ottoman

port will produce war is yet uncertain. If either of them does,

this country will probably take part in it, to prevent a dangerous

accession of power to the house of Austria. The zeal with which

they have appeared to negotiate a peace between Holland and the

empire seems to prove that they do not apprehend being engaged

in war against the emperor for any other power; because if they

hid such an an apprehension they would not wish to deprive them --selves of the assistance of the Dutch: and their opinion on this sub-

-ject is better evidence than the details we get from the news-

-papers, and must weigh against the affected delays of the Porte as

to the line of demarcation, the change in their ministry, their pre-

-parations for war, & other symptoms of like aspect. This question is

not altogether uninteresting to us. Showed this country be involved in

a continental war while differences are existing between us & Great Bri-

-tain, the latter might carry less moderation into the negociations for

settling them.

I send you herewith the gazettes of Leyden that of

France for the last two months. The latter because it is the best

in this country, the former as being the best newspaper the Cou-

rier de l'Europe you will get genuine from London as reprinted

here it is of less worth. should your knowlege of the newspapers

of this country lead you to wish for any other I shall take the great-

est pleasure in adding it to the regular transmissions of the

two others which I shall make you in future.

I have the honour to be highest esteem & respect

You most obed

and most humble sert

Th. Jefferson

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Plat of a Tract of Land known as the "Chippewa Encampment" Reserved for Fishing Purposes at the Falls of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Under Act 3 of the Treaty of June 16, 1820

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian AffairsSeries: Central Map File

A small map showing land along a river with a section labeled “Rapids.”

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Photograph of a Wounded Soldier Being Carried from the Front Lines by Members of the Medical Corps in Okinawa

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

Two soldiers in helmets carry a third soldier on a stretcher down a hill with small trees and bushes.  Other soldiers proceed and follow them.

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Test Paint Lines - North End of South Capitol Street Bridge

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public RoadsSeries: Historical Photograph FilesFile Unit: Research - Physical Tests - Pavement Markings

Form 114 Physical Research

Tests - Pavement Markings

Classification No. 50-3128 State Place

[photograph of white lines painted on to pavement]

Description. Test Paint Lines, June 14, 1950. North end of the South Capital Street Bridge. Photo by C. H. Ritter.

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Entry from 1860 Census Schedule for Ulysses S. Grant

Record Group 29: Records of the Bureau of the CensusSeries: Eighth Census of the United States (1860 Census)

A page from the census showing a long list of names. About halfway down the list is an entry for Ulysses S. Grant, listed as “U. S. Grant.”  He is listed as a leather merchant, and 37 years old.  His wife Julia and their children Frederick, Ulyses [sic], Ellen, and Jesse are also listed.

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The Half Moon, Henry Hudson

Record Group 181: Records of Navy Installations Command, Navy Regions, Naval Districts, and Shore EstablishmentsSeries: Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard

A wooden tall ship floats next to a dock. It has no sails, but two masts and other rigging are visible. It is a replica of Henry Hudson's ship. Maintenance buildings are in the background.  The caption reads, “F. 644 N. 40 U.S. Navy Yard N. Y. 6-12-10. The Half Moon

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An Act of June 11, 1940, Public Law 76-586, to Provide for the Establishment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of CongressFile Unit: Laws of the United States, 1940, 76th Congress, 3d Session, Part 2, Public Laws 526-640

H.R. 9394 [PUBLIC — NO. [handwritten] 586]

[CHAPTER [handwritten] 304]

[stamp in left margin] [STAMP AND RIGHT MARGIN]

THE WHITE HOUSE [ TOP LINE ILLEGIBLE]

MAY 31, 1940 SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT

RECEIVED JUN 12 1940

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

RECEIVED

Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States of America;

At the Third Session

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third

day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty

AND ACT

To provide for the establishment of the Cumberland Gap National

Historical Park in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America and Congress assembled, Then when title to

all the lands, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-

Cumberland Ford areas, being portions of the Warriors Path of the

Indians and Wilderness Road of Daniel Boone, within Bell and

Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne

County, Tennessee; as may be determined by the Secretary of the

Interior as necessary or desirable for national historical market purposes,

shall have been vested in the United States such area or areas shall

be, as they are hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart as a

public park for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall

be known as the " Cumberland Gap National Historical Park": Pro-

vided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation

of public monies any lands within the aforesaid areas: Provided

further, That such area or areas shall include, at least, the following

features and intervening lands: Cumberland Gap, The Pinnacle, the

remaining fortifications of the War between the States, Soldiers Cave,

King Solomon's Cave, Devils Garden, Sand Cave, The Doublings,

White Rocks, Rocky Base, Moore Knob, and that portion of the

Warriors Path and Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road extending from

the city of Cumberland, Tennessee, to Cumberland Ford, near

Pineville, Kentucky.

SEC. 2. The total area of the Cumberland Gap National Historical

Park, as, as determined pursuant to this Act, shall not exceed fifty

thousand acres, and shall not include any land within the city limits

of Middleborough and Pineville, Kentucky; Cumberland Gap, Ten-

nessee; nor any lands adjacent thereto which the proper officials

thereof shall indicate to the Secretary of the Interior prior to the

establishment of said Park are required for expansion of said cities.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby

authorized to accept donations of land, interest in land, buildings,

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structures, and other property within the boundaries of the said

historical Park as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of

funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof: Provided, That he

may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds,

by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation

under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of

land within said historical Park as may be necessary for the comple-

tion thereof. The title to any lands or interest in lands to be acquired

pursuant to this Act shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the

Interior.

SEC. 4. The administration, protection, and development of the

aforesaid national historical park shall be exercised under the direc-

tion of the Secretary of the cafeteria by the National Park Service,

subject to the provision of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535),

entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other

purposes", as amended.

[Signature]

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

[Signature]

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

[Handwritten]

Approved

June 11, 1940

bracket signature unreadable]

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Petition for Naturalization for Maria Zamora De Garcia

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Petitions for Naturalization

[top left corner] ORIGINAL (To be retained by clerk) [center] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [top right corner] No. 48

PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION 75878

[handwritten in red and circled] 7

To the Honorable the District Court of The United States at Los Angeles, Calif.

The petition of MARIA GARCIA, hereby filed, respectfully shows:

(1) My place of residence is 10433 Montara Ave., South Gate, Calif. (2) My occupation is dressmaker

(3) I was born in La Colorada, Mexico on 2/19/00 My race is white

[illegible] xxxm husband is citizen of US by birth in US

Court of [blank], at [blank]

(5) I am [blank] married. The name of my husband is Nicolas Blas Garcia

we were married on 8/29/29 at Los Angeles, Calif.; he was born at Rockport, Tex. on 2/3/01; entered the United States

at [blank] on [blank] for permanent residence therein, and now resides at with me I have 3 children, and the name, date, and place of birth, and place of residence of each of said children are as follows:

Dorothy 8/20/22

Carmen 10/31/23

Nicolas Jr. 6/4/30 all born in Los Angeles, Calif., and all reside with me

(6) My last foreign residence was Agua Prieta Sonora, Mex. I emigrated to the United State of America from " My lawful entry for permanent residence in the United States was at Nogales, Ariz., under the name of maria Zamora de Garcia

on 7/22/24, on the vessel on foot

as shown by the certificate of my arrival attached hereto.

(7) I am not a disbeliever in or opposed to organized government or a member of or affiliated with any organization or body of persons teaching disbelief in or opposed to organized government. I am not a polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy. I am attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States. It is my intention to become a citizen of the United States and to renounce absolutely and forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentiate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to [blank]

of whom (which) at this time I am a subject (or citizen), and it is my intention to reside permanently in the United States. (8) I am able to speak the English language.

(9) I have resided continuously in the United States of America for the term of [handwritten] 1 years at least immediately preceding the date of this petition, to wit, since

7/22/24 and in the County of Los Angeles

this State, continuously next preceding the date of this petition, since July 1924 [illegible]

[illegible] xpetition filed under Sec. 2 Act of Sept. 22, 1922

(10) I have not heretofore made petition for naturalization: No. [blank] , on [blank]

at [blank] and such petition was denied by that Court for the following reasons and causes, to wit:

[blank]

and the cause of such denial has since been cured or removed.

Attached hereto and made a part of this, my petition for citizenship, [illegible], certificate from the

Department of Labor of my said arrival, and the affidavits of the two verifying witnesses required by law.

Wherefore, I, your petitioner, pray that I may be admitted a citizen of the United States of America, [illegible]

[blank]

I, Maria Garcia, do swear (affirm) that I know the contents of this petition for naturalization subscribed by me, that

the same are true to the best of my own knowledge, except as to matters therein stated to be alleged upon information and belief and that as to those matters I believe

them to be true, and that this petition was signed by me with my full, true name: SO HELP ME GOD.

[handwritten] X [signature]

AFFIDAVITS OF WITNESSES

Ray L. Hayes, occupation painter

residing at 3153 Cherokee Ave., South Gate, Calif.

Lottie M. Hayes, occupation housewife

residing at 3153 Cherokee Ave., South Gate, Calif.

each being severally, duly, and respectively sworn, deposes and says: I am a citizen of the United States of America; I have personally known and have been acquainted

since 6/1/37 and that to my personal knowledge the petitioner has resided in the United States continuously preceding

the date of filing this petition, of which this affidavit is a part, to wit, since the date last mentioned and at South Gate

in the County of Los Angeles, Calif.

this State, in which the above-entitled petition is made, continiously since 6/1/37, and that i have personal knowledge that the

petitioner is and during all such periods has been a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed

to the good order and happiness of the United States, and in my opinion the petitioner is in every way qualified to be admitted a citizen of the United States.

I do swear (affirm) that the statements of fact I have made in this affidavit of this petition for naturalization subscribed by me are true to the best of my knowledge

and belief.

[signature][signature]

(signature of witness)(signature of witness)

Subscribed and sworn to before me by the above-named petitioner and witnesses in the respective forms of oath shown above in the office of Clerk of said Court at

Los Angeles this 10 day of June, Anno Domini 1940. I hereby certify that Certificate of Arrival No. 23 81375

from the Department of Labor, showing the lawful entry for permanent residence of the petitioner above named [illegible]

of such petitioner, has been by me filed with, attached to, and made a part of this petition on this date.

[signature]

clerk.

By [signature]

Deputy Clerk.

Mexico

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Old-type wood covered bridge

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public RoadsSeries: Historical Photograph FilesFile Unit: Highway Structures - Bridges - Covered

Highway Structures - Bridges - Covered

FORM 114

Classification No. 50-2754 50-2755 State Ohio Place

[Two photographs of a covered wooden bridge with construction equipment next to it]

50-2754 50-2755

Description Old-type wood covered bridge being replaced by new concrete-constructed type near Hillsboro, Ohio.

Photos by T. W. Kines, June 9, 1950