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The next day, July 8th, HST designated MacArthur as commanding general
of the UN forces.
On the 13th the State Department announced that a committee had been
established to receive, screen, and forward to the UN offers of
assistance to the UN unified command.
On the 14th Lie announced that he had sent letters to the 52 UN members
that had given what he interpreted to be favorable replies to the
Security Council resolution of June 27, asking them to consider
supplying ground troops for use in Korea. On the 21st Lie reported
that replies to his appeal for increased assistance to South Korea
had been received from 11 nations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
TRUMAN
Denmark, France, Greece, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, and Swerden.
INATIONAL
The replies contained offers of various types of aid, with only Bolivia
ARCHIVES AND
NECORDS
making a formal pledge to supply ground troops, a token force of 30
SERVICE"
No
regular army officers. Lie said that several other governments were
"in contact with Washington. On August 7th Lie reported at a press
conference that "ww have now received replies from 41 member countries
to my telegram of July 14. .Most have offered concrete assistance. The
UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Thailand, South Africa
and New Zealand have made definite offers of combat land, sea and air
forces. Some of these forces are already engaged in action. Many of
these offers are substantial. In addition, a number of governments
are in consultation now with the unified command about supplying
further military assistance."
First Report on
The Security Council met again on July 25th to hear the first report
Action under
by the US on the course of action taken under the unified command in
Unified Command
accordance with the July 7th resolution of the Council. The report,
presented by Austin, said, in part:
"Upon the request by the Security Council of the UN for assistance to
defend the ROK against the North Korean aggressors, the only forces in
the area immediately available were those US and British Commonwealth
occupation forces under the command of Gen. MacArthur in the occupation
of the Japanese Islands. The size and nature of these forces were
sufficient only to perform the occupation duties in Japan.
"Before committing the forces, in response to the Security Council
resolutions, they had to be regrouped and re-equipped from standards
for peacetime occupation of Japan- to standards suitable for combat in
Korea. This also involved moving these troops, with their equipment
and supplies, from their various occupation stations in Japan, by
combinations of motor, rail, water and air transportation, to Korea.
Even so, all the materials for sustained combat were not immediately
available to General MacArthur and therefore had to be rushed to Korea
from the US The well-planned attack by the North Korean regime, the
size of their force, their logistical support and their ability to
continue to press the attack, account for the degree of initiative
enjoyed by the aggressor. The defenders of the ROK have been forced
to submit to the time and place selected by the aggressor, and now
must depend upon assistance from nations peacefully disposed and lying
not merely hundreds, but thousands of miles away.
"From the continuing appearance on the battlefield of large numbers
of enemy personnel and equipment, it is now apparent that the North
Korean aggressors have available to them resources far in excess of
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