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    "ocrText": "- -5 -\nFrance would like, President Auriol went on, to have collec-\ntive security through the United Nations. Since that is impossible,\nFrance will go \"all out\" for the Atlantic Pact and a system of regional\nsecurity. France accepts without hesitation all the responsibilities of\nthe Atlantic Pact.\nThe French know, said M. Auriol, that there would be nothing\nleft of the country after a Soviet occupation. Of course, France would\nbe \"liberated after an occupation, but it would not be France. It would\nbe a corpse. It would be a totally different country. The whole social\nstructure would be different. The same things would happen that are now\ngoing on in Eastern Germany. The country, the whole society, the people\nin Eastern Germany are deeply and profoundly changed. France wants to\navoid that at all costs.\nPresident Auriol said he understood how it was possible for\nfalse reports to appear in the papers to the effect that France would not\nfight. Sometimes even Frenchmen give false information to newsmen -\nfalse information or false impressions. When they are in politics, they\nsometimes forget about their country. When they are in a campaign, they\nsometimes say things they shouldn't. The truth is, that the French people\nTRUMAN\nSIGNATURE\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL COURTED SERVICE RECORDS AND"
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