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OCR Page 1 of 5From J. V. Fitzergald, The White House
To Mr. Charles G. Ross, Presidential Party
General MacArthur, arriving in Tokyo, told reporters the President's
visit will "arouse great enthusiasm throughout the Far East". He
said it will be interpreted as "symbolizing a firm determination
that peace shall be secured in the Pacific and that Asia shall be
free, not slave". Sources close to MacArthur indicated he was well
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pleased with his talks with the President.
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The Associated Press reported the President and MacArthur
"apparently have agreed on plans for shifting the bulk of American
Military from the Far East to Western Europe immediately after the
United Nations victory in Korea is completed. The deduction was made
by John Hightower, saying it "is one of the future lines of action
indicated by the President's statement on the Wake Island conference.
MacArthur initialled the document thereby lending his backing to it.'
Izvestia, organ of the Soviet Government declared, editorially, that
the Wake meeting was arranged to work out plans to "expand American
aggression" in the Far East with the U.S. making use of the U.N.
Resolutions on Korea to extend aggression there and thereby raise
a wave of war psychosis.
Editorials on the Wake meeting commented that the official account
of the conference was not very revealing. The New York Times said
the President is expected to throw more light on it in his Frisco
Foreign Policy address. It declared the utimate resolution of the
cleavage between our European and our Asiatic policies" will have to
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