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    "ocrText": "DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY\nP\nWashington\nY\n13 July 1950\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE\nThe three Secretaries submit the following to you in connection with\nthe prosecution of our activities in Korea:\n1. It is imperative that the maximum amount of pressure be exerted on\nall member nations of the United Nations to provide ground troops for action in\nKorea. We are aware of the problems that face the State Department in that\nrespect, but the results are most unsatisfactory. It is a difficult thing for the\nAmerican people to understand why this country provides all of the ground\ntroops for United Nations action, undertakes a draft, and contemplates some\nform of general mobilization while other countries who are members of the\nUnited Nations, subject to the same requirements as member nations of the\nUnited Nations and generally benefitting from the decision to implement\nUnited Nations principles in Korea, should not participate beyond token\ncontributions in the air and on the sea. It is further difficult to understand\nwhy some minor measures of mobilization cannot be undertaken elsewhere\nto provide at least a partially supporting effort on the ground.\n2. From the point of American domestic opinion, this has direct impact\non the whole development of NATO. Americans are going to be extremely loathe\nto contribute substantially to the development of Western Europe unless they\nhave the feeling that the will to contribute exists elsewhere as strongly as it\ndoes in this country.\n3. In any event, it is important that if it is impossible for other nations\nto contribute ground fighting forces that the reasons therefor be made clear to\nthe American people.\n4. It would be the normal tendency of a commander to use troops\nunder his command and retain other troops in Japan for operation, unless he\nwere otherwise advised. General MacArthur should be alerted to the importance\nof the use of member nation ground troops in Korea from an over-all political\npoint of view.\n/s/ Frank Pace, Jr.\nFrancis P. Matthews\nThomas K. Finletter\nSecretary of the-Army Secretary of the Navy\nSecretary of the Air Force"
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