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    "ocrText": "3.\nhad shown that healthy economies throw up strong resistance to Communist\ninternal pressures. And in certain areas of Asia, particularly in the\nPhilippines, Burma, India, and Indonesia, the western world was\nbeginning to demonstrate its awareness of the need for stimulating\nsocial changes and recognizing the desires of the peoples of this area\nfor independence. The Berlin airlift, firm western opposition to Soviet\nintransigeance in the United Nations, and the Atlantic Pact had all shown\nthe Kremlin that its efforts to obstruct the cause of peace would fail.\nHence on June 25, 1950, the Communists changed from these tactics to open\nmilitary force.\nBut an aroused Free World met that challenge, too. Immediate and\ncourageous United Nations action in Korea served. as a warning to Communist\nImperialism that open aggression would be met with force. Today, led by\nthe United States, the Free World is mobilizing its strength. It is\nconverting its potential power into real might on the basic assumption\nthat together, but only together, the free people have the manpower, the\nproductive capacity, the raw materials, and the will to cope with the\npresent danger. It is logical that leadership in this undertaking should\nfall to . us. As General Eisenhower has remarked: \"What nation is more\n= capable more ready for providing this leadership than the United States?\nWe have been spared much of the discouragement, the defeatism; the\ndestruction that has been visited upon Europe. We are younger. We are\nfresher and, a further important point, we are farther from the immediate\ndanger. \"\nThis challenge to American leadership comes at a time when as a\nNation we are stronger than ever before in our history. We have more"
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