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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 2( 'rack ]\nPage 8\nby propagandists. They had been frightened by Chiang Kai-shek and Syng-\nman Rhee's boys and that if they could be in the hands of a neutral com-\nmission, let them take things easily and have a chance to have it\nexplained to them that it would be all right when they went home, they\nwould go home. This showed a deep distrust in our screening and also ax\na real attempt to get away from this whole non-forceable return and get\nmost of these people back. As I say, he got Mike Pearson and Selwyn Lloyd\ninto the thing. Lloyd--Eden had not yet arrived-Lloyd was the head of\nthe British delegation. He was a barrister of considerable skill and\nability; and he was always producing formulae which were very tricky and\nwhich he would explain SO that they meant different things to different\nsides. And he would attmept to get us to agree to a formula on one general\nxk set of arguments and the other side of the formula on another set, and\n? VATIONAL ADMIN\nit was vague enough to mean both. Pearson was very eager to bring about\nRECORDS\n<s\nan armistice. He didn't engate in any dialectic on this or try to get\ndown to precise formula e, but he just wanted an armistice and he wanted\nto get through this issue in any old way that would get an armistice.\nWhile this was going ón, we had some trouble with our own friends in this\nhemisphere, because the Mexicans came forward with an idea which was\nquite unworkable and quite-really impossible: that various countries\nwere supposed to welcome these men who didn't want to go home as temporary\nresidents, and they could stay in such countries as Mexico and other places\nuntil it was all right for they to go home. Well, they hadn't thought it\nout; how they would stay there; who would support them; what they'd do;\nwhether they might be thrown out at any moment-all of these\nquestions\nBelaunde\nwere up in the air. And Mr. of Peru put a gloss on that\nby making it even more confused than Padilla Nervo had, SO that was\nthrown in. Our own policy had to remain clear and was clear. We said\nthat any kind of indefinite detention of prisoners who did not want to be"
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