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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nThe United Nations forces in Korea are making spectacular\nprogress. But the fighting there is. nott yet over. Tho North\nKorean communists still refuse to acknowledge the authority\nof the United Nations. They continue to but up stubhorn, but\nfutile, resistance.\nThe United Nations forces are growing in strength and are\nnow far superior. to the forces which still oppose them. The\npower of the Korean communists to resist effüctively will soon\ncome to an end.\nHowever, the job of the United Nations in Korea will not\nend when the fighting stops. There i's a big task of rehabilita\nticn to be done. As a result of the communist aggression Korea\nhas suffered terrible destruction. Thousands upon .thousands\nof people are homeless and there is serious danger of famine\nand disease in the coning winter months.\nThe United Natione is already extending relief to ease the\nsuffering which the communist invasicn has brought about and\nit is preparing to holp the Koreans rebuild their homes and\nrestore their factories.\nGeneral MacArthur und Aubassador Muccio gave me a vivid\npicture of the way in which the process of reconstruction has\nalready begun. Railroads are being restored, bridges aro be-\ning rebuilt, and public utilities are beginning to function.\nWe will use the resources of our farmy and our Ecenomic\nCooperation Administration to meet the immediate emergency.\nWe will give our strong support to the United Nations program\nof relief and reconstructicn that will soon be started. The\nUnited States willido-its full part to help build a free,\nunited self-suppcrting Korean Republic.\nIn a very: real sense the unity of the free nations in\nmeeting the aggression in Korea is the result of. a firmly held\npurpose to support peace and freedom --- a purpose which the\nfree nations have pursued together over the years just passed.\nThe name \"United Nations\" was first used in the dark days\nof the sucond world war by the countriés then allied to put\ndown another aggression,\nFrom that day until this, the cause of peace has been\nstrongthened by Tan active policy of cooperation among the free\nnations. It is not by chance, but as a result of that steady\npolicy, that fifty-three members of the United Nations rallied\nimmediately to meet the unprovoked aggression against the\nRepublic of Korea.\nIt has been as a part of that same policy and common\npurpose that we have joined during the past five yyars in\nbuilding up the strength of the .peace-loving forces of the\nworld. We have contributed to. this through the Marshall Plan\nin Europe, through eccnomic assistance in'imany.other parts of\nthe world. We have also contributed to this end through\nmilitary aid to countries threatiened by aggression. All\naround the. world the free nation's have been gaining strength.\nWe have to recognize that, as we have moved steadily along\nin the Nost-war years, our policy of building a peaceful world\nhas met constant opposition from the Sovict Union.\nPreser lation"
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