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    "ocrText": "(Synopsis D, page 11)\nAt the close of the debate, Attlee announced that he had proposed\nto HST that he fly to Washington to undertake with the President\n\"a wide survey of the problems that face us today.' It was under-\nstood that Attlee had made this decision after the first and in-\ncorrect reports of HST's statement on the use of the atomic bomb\nhad reached London. These reports were said to have caused con-\nsternation in the House of Commons, and there were demands that\nGreat Britain withdraw its forces from Korea if the US decided to\nuse this weapon. Attlee explained to the House, however, the\nconditions that must be fulfilled in the US before the atomic bomb\ncould be used and he added: \"The British Government consider that\ndecision of such grave import that it could not be taken on behalf\nof the UN without fullest prior consideration with those member\nS.\nstates who are at present participating in the international\npolice action. 11\nU.S\nAND\nHST Requests\nOn December 1st HST sent a message to Congress in which he requested\nAdditional\nadditional appropriations for defense. The message stated in part:\nAppropriations\n\"The present attack on the UN forces by the Chinese Communists is\na new act of aggression---equally as naked, deliberate, and unpro-\nvoked as the earlier aggression of the North Korean communists.\nThere is no conceivable justification for the attack The only ex-\nplenation is that these Chinese have been misled or forced into\ntheir reckless attack---to further the imperialist designs of the\nSoviet Union. This aggression casts a more ominous shadow over\nthe prospects for world peace. We see no issue between the Chinese\ncommunists and the free nations, or between the Soviet Union and\nthe free nations ,41 which could not be honorably solved by peaceful\nmeans\nThe leaders of communist imperialism could not help but\nknow that this action involved grave risk of world war In the\nface of this situation, the US and the other free nations have no\nchoice but to increase their military strength very rapidly\nWe have not made this choice gladly. But we have made it firmly\nand definitely, and we will not falter or turn back. \"\nHST--Attlee\nAttlee arrived in Washington on December 4th and held his first\nTalks\nmeeting with HST. A communiqué issued afterwards said that Bradley\nhad summarized the latest information on the serious military\nsituation in Korea, and that HST and Attlee then reviewed the\ngeneral world situation in the light of these developments.\nAttlee, in an address on December 6th before the National Press\nClub said, in part: \"It is our task here to review the world\nsituation in the light of [recent] events and consider carefully\nour further course of action. We must always beware of taking\nshort views dictated by our emotions We must always bear in mind\nthat the peoples of the Far East have to live as neighbors and we\nwant them as good neighbors. Our long-term object, therefore, is\nto get ride of the causes of war. That does not mean that we have\nany intention in indulging in what is called appeasement. I am\ntold that there are people who believe that that is what I have"
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