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    "ocrText": "2/13/54, Reel 1, Track 2, Pau 4\nDR. FEIS:\nYou haven't the other draft, or notes on this speech?\nMR. ACHESON: No. Not at all.\nMR. NITZE:\nDidn't the discussions with respect to Formosa precede this speech? At the\ndefense establishment?\nMR. ACHESON:\nYes. They did.\nMR. NITZE:\nIt would seem to me that in those discussions on the subject of Formosa\nthat\nit was made perfectly clear by the military that they did not think they\ndefend\nthat if Formosa\ncould ptblect Formosa; #/# was attacked -- with U.S. Torces --\nMR. ACHESON:\nThat K as Absolutely right.\nMR. NITZE:\nAnd that in the same discussions, it was perfectly clear that if they were to\nwas\nattacked against Korea this was even less defensible than/ Formosa. Because\nshortly after this speech of yours, I went over to the Joint Strategic Survey\nCommittee and said that as we understood it the decision that the military had\nna de, that they didn't think that Formosa should be defen_ded, was on the\nbasis of the military importance of Formoaa; and we wanted to ask them a\ndifferent question, and tha.t was, if it was of the utmost political importance\nthat Formosa be defended -- we weren't testing their judgment that it wasn't\nbe defended\nof sufficient s trategic importance to th-te-defend-44 from the military\nstandpoint, but we thought - that if we were to tell them that this was of\nsuch political importance that there be a defense, could they do it? And\nthey came back and said that this would be militarily unsound, even if we\ntoods,\ntdld them this was of the utmost political importance Now we did not t ake\nup the question of Korea, because it seemed to us that the Formosan position\nwas much more defensible -- much - militarily a much sounder thing to do.\nAnd if they couldn't do it with respect to Formosa, how could you expect them\nto do it with respect to Korea?\nTHUMAN\nMR. GRAHAM:\nThey still didn't answer your question, did they?\nNY NATHONAL A\nADMIY\nMR. NITZE:\nNo, they did answer the question [CONFUSION]\n<<s\nMr. braham: They gave you an evasive answer."
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