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3. Military Assistance Program: President's
Message. - President Truman, in his message to Congress
of July 25, recommended the enactment of legislation
authorizing military aid to free nations to enable them
to protect themselves against the threat of aggression
and contribute more effectively to the collective
defense of world peace. He stated:
"The principal task of the free nations of
Western Europe in the last four years has been to
restore their war-shattered economies. The
inherent difficulties of this task have been
aggravated by the foreign policy of the Soviet
Union, which has done its utmost to prevent
European recovery. Full economic recovery requires
peaceful conditions and the assurance that the
work of labor, industry and agriculture will not
be swept away in an outburst of international
violence. In place of these conditions, the
Soviet Union, with its violent propaganda, its
manipulation of the conspiratorial activities
of the world communist movement, and its main-
tenance of one of the largest peacetime armies
s
in history, has deliberately created an atmos-
phere of fear and danger.
ARCHIVES Ano
: SERVICEI RECOROS
"In the face of what has occurred in Greece,
to
and in Berlin, in the face of the threats and
pressures to which Iran and Turkey have been
exposed, in the light of the suppression of human
liberty in countries under communist control, the
nations of Western Europe have not been able to
ignore the necessity of a military defense for
themselves. They have seen what the Soviet Union
has done to nations for which it professed friend-
ship and with which it was recently allied. They
have observed how a communist coup d'état, opera-
ting in the shadow of the massed military might
of the Soviet Union, can overthrow, at one stroke,
the democratic liberties and the political inde-
pendence of a friendly nation. 113
4. Secretary Acheson Says MAP Would Halt "gangster"
Aggression. - Secretary Acheson declared before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee, July 28, that "when
political aggression fails, as it has failed so far
in Western Europe, totalitarian regimes are often
tempted to gain their objectives by military means,
particularly when they consider that no effective
resistance is possible. He said that the pledge of
3
White House press release, July 25 (to be printed
in the Bulletin, August 8).
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