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    "ocrText": "CONFIDENTIAL\nDECLASSIFIED\nE O. 11632, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)\nDepr. of State letter, 3-66:26\nBa NLT- He , NARS Date 6\n-?-\nARCHIVES\n=\neventualities. If by our presaures to bring about the\nof Europe, we placa en undue etrain on the coonomy of these Zuropean\nnations, se subject thea to the grave danger of opening the beok door to\nCommist inroadn and expansione that might serve to defent, through\npoliticol foress, the military enda we ane I stated thot it than\nimportant to bear in mind that the of the Eupopesn\npeople to fight will be proportionste to the anus available to then to\ninmure their defense. The cannot expect our European friends to alou ang\nfor placing non in uniforn Af they are not fully conselous of\nthe fact that thay will have the tools and implecente of defenso to darry\nthrough with the Job. Following the outhroak of the Korman hostilities\nthere ma e great ourge of support in Furope for the principles enmeleted\nin the Security Counoil resolutions. The response was heartening, Shortly,\nhowover, this enthuatam began to sone and a chill ovortoolt the peoples of\nEurope. The question is thus dranns \"Do wa have the capabilitios and the\nallitery heans to noet the issuen that are non before ua and which will\ncontinue to confront us an the futuro as a result of this clash in\napparently Arroconollable interesta?\nI next pointed up the thought that in the aross of the\nworld the consideration of which side, Russia or the United States, would\nbe the winnor in a world confisgration often playe en Amportant part in\nthe deterninition of indivional notional pozicios. In the For Eest the\nfear of and the fear of Ruenian imporialia da roel but there is no\ndeep=doated antinatity toward Comunios en da the Far\nEont\nCONTINENTIAL"
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