MEMORANDUM OF A CONVERSATION                
 
                                                            
 
 
Accompanied by the American Minister, I called this afternoon on Dr. Salazar,  
the Portuguese Prime Minister. The following is a summary of our conversation,  
ich lasted nearly two hours. Mr. Millard acted as interprete
 
                                                            
 
 
After an exchange of amentities, I referred to the books of Dr. Salazar which  
I had atken back with me after my last visit and said that they had been read   
by the President with much pleasure and appreciation of the clarity of the   
Prime Minister's views on economic and political questions. 
 
                                                            
 
 
I then referred to my last talk with Dr. Salazar a year ago when I had set   
forth the attitude of my Government toward certain world problems. We were   
not at that tim actively engaged in the war; now we are. I would not take   
his time to go over the same ground now but would like to tell him some of   
      the preparations which my goverment was making.       
 
                                                            
 
 
I said that I was not a man of war but a man of peace and my work in the   
Department of State had been in this field. The President had set up seven   
committees composed of distinguished experts in the subjects with which   
those committees were charged to examine. The committees were composed partly  
of Government officials and partly of experts on these subjects from private   
life. I wished to emphasize that they were studying the problems in the   
spirit of peace, not war. I said that the American people are not naturally   
versed in foreign affairs; we are not internationalists by nature. I trusted   
that the work of the committees would be fruitful and that when thw time for   
the Peace Conference is reached, my government would have ready the   
necessary plans and information on which to take prompt and effective action   
to cope with the problems which will arise immediatly on the cessation of   
                        hostilities.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
I would mention only a few of the more important points which are being   
covered by these committees. The first point which we regard as absolutely   
essential is that order shall be established immediatly upon the cessation   
of hostilities. This, I said, was one of the questions which preoccupied all   
the statesmen I had talked with during this trip, and my Government was   
fully conscious of its prime importance. Other points I mentioned to Dr.   
Salazar were the problem of bringing prompt relief to the sufferring peoples   
of Europe, the flight and enforced migrations of vast populations in Europe   
and the question of territorial adjustments. On this latter point our   
guiding principle is that the countries which have been deprived of their   
independence by the invader shall be restored- not necessarily with exactly   
                    the same frontiers.