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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 3, Track 1, Page 7\nlems about the UN--there are times when the UN clearly provides a pro-\ncedure for taking some of the fever out of the situation. The Berlin case\nto me was a good example of that. Had we not had a commitment to put that\nkind of a case before the UN; had we not been able to put our own pres-\ntige more or less in the icebox of the UN during that period and had to\nface squarely up to the issue-do we fight a war over this or accept this\nact of force by the Soviet Union--there might well have been a war. I\nmean there's a case where it acts as a poultice on a difficult situation.\nBut there were many, many other occasions--I suspect these are in the\nmajority-wwere issues may be inflamed rather than settled down by debate\nTRUMAN\nin the UN. Take the Indians and the South African situation-it comes\nCalifornia ARCHIVESA RETORDS ADMIN\nup every year for discussi on, you see--and so many others which do not\nthe\nhave in them the inherent trouble, but which are subject to for each--\nsometimes for personal consi .derations only-which are subject to being\ninflamed by debate in the UN.\nMR. ACHESON:\nThe thing that I was trying to provoke Phil into exposing himself on is\nthat he has said, \"There's something wrong here, because generally speaking\nwe go into a UN General Assembly meeting-certainly maybe the last two-\nwe have gons into the meetings and come out with a lessened prestige and\na lessened position of leadership in the world than we had when we started.2\nIsn't that true?\nMR. NITZE:\nWell, I think I said here, or meant to say, that I think on the last one\nin 152 that the victory on the Korean thing boosted us up.\nMR. ACHESON:\nYou said that; that's right, in your letter\nMR. NITZE:\nThe earlier ones I wasn't sure that that was true. That was the case-but\nit illustrates my other principle that, when it does get top level con-\nsideration and that when you work it through in the UN, making the UN\nGeneral Assembly a matter of great importance to hold your position there,\nthen you get productive results.\nDR. OPPENHETMER: And when the Russians help you."
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