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Re: Donald McClean, Korea and the Bomb




I have read the same thing in other sources (sorry but
do not have them at hand.)
Don

>From: "Martin Dunne" <martindunne@bigpond.com.au>
>Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
>Subject: Donald McClean, Korea and the Bomb
>Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:33:10 +0930
>
>In 1950 [McClean] became the head of the American Department in London and
>passed to Moscow, among other things, the assurance obtained from President
>Truman by Prime Minister Atlee that the United States would not use the 
>atom
>bomb in the Korean war.
>
>p. 242 Phillip Knightley, A Hack's Progress, (Random House, Sydney, 1997)
>
>This is just a throwaway line in Knightley's autobiography, but news to me.
>Does anyone have any suggestions on further sources for this?
>
>--
>"We may agree that Jews were beaten, starved and sent to the gas chambers
>because of the Nazi discourse of antisemitism, but it is quite a different
>matter when someone tries to tell us that being beaten, starved to death or
>gassed is also a 'discourse'."
>- Richard J. Evans "In Defence of History"
>


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