Selected Documents used in "America, Europe, and German Rearmament, August-September 1950" (pdf format)

Bolté To Gruenther, "Discussion with Col Byroade on German Rearmament," July 25, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book I, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Staff Study: Rearmament of Western Germany, August 2, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Byroade to McCloy, August 3, 1950, enclosing Byroade's "Approach to the Formation of a 'European Army'"
Department of State Central Files, 740.5/8-350, RG 59, U.S. National Archives

Memorandum for General Schuyler, August 5, 1950 (Byroade-Mock-Miller meeting of August 3
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Schuyler memorandum for the record (Schuyler-Byroade-Gerhardt meeting), August 10, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Bolté memorandum for Gruenther (with attached comparison of State Dept. and G-3 plans), August 10, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Bolté to Army Chief of Staff (Collins), August 28, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 20, Section 1, box 20, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, August 30, 1950 (Acheson-Nitze-Byroade-Perkins meeting)
Acheson Papers (Lot File 53 D444), box 9, RG 59, U.S. National Archives

Bolté to Army Chief of Staff (Collins), August 31, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Memorandum by Army Chief of Staff, enclosed in Ware to JCS Secretary, September 1, 1950
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives

Miller memorandum, and Gruenther to Davis, Duncan and Edwards, both September 1, 1950, enclosing "Plan for the Development of West German Security Forces"
G-3 1950-51 TS Decimal File, 091 Germany, box 21, Case 12, Section I-C, Book II, RG 319, U.S. National Archives; the plan is also in CCS 092 Germany (5-4-49), sec 3, RG 218, U.S. National Archives

Bérard to Foreign Ministry, mid-October 1950 (extract),
Series "Europe 1949-1955," subseries "Allemagne," box 187 (formerly box 70), ff. 7-8, French Foreign Ministry Archives, Paris

Bérard to Foreign Ministry, October 17, 1950
Series "Europe 1949-1955," subseries "Allemagne," box 187 (formerly box 70), French Foreign Ministry Archives, Paris

Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Foreign Policy, first meeting, November 8, 1954 (extract)
Hanson Baldwin Papers, box 125, folder 23, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT