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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 3, Track 2, Page 4\ngo through these, literally thousands, of meetings a year--in assemblies\nand sub-committees and commissions and technical assistants activity and\nall that sort of thing-you are sitting down with the people of other\ncountries doing big or little things; but in the process you are finding\nout that there are broad common interests which you can pursue together.\nAnd my guess is that you are building up there a network of little-not\ngreat cables, but little threads that are tying you together, so that when\ngreat issues of a crisis come they will have made their decision, without\nknowing it, to be on your side. Now in the Korean--in that weekend of the\nKorean business, it was striking that there was a much greater unanimity\nthere in the presence of the danger than there was after the United States\nhad made its commitment of forces and had lifted the danger. And some of\nNATIONAL $\nthe neutrality that you hear coming out of Indonesia, India and those places\nus GOVERNAL\nis something of a luxury because there is the umbrella of American power\nwhich makes it possible for them to act like neutrals, you see. I think\nthat there is a process here that is a very important one in the longer\nrun; and anyone who was out in the CBI theatre during the war who had a\nhandful of troops out there in the midst of this great sea of little brown\nmen could understand how this relates to power--you were completely helpless\nunless they carried your water and toted your food. And when Mr. Roosevelt\ndied, these little people would come up to you on the street and just touch\nyour hand and smile. That's a very important part of military power, among\nother things. And that's the kind of thing that is going on in a rather\npersistent course here through this UN action. Would you disagree with that?\nDR. OPPENHEIMER: Well, as I think the CBI theatre example is a good couhter-example, because\nthere wasn it any UN and there wasn't any equivale ent machinery\nMR. RUSK:\nYes, that was the origin of the )very confused here)\nDR. OPPENHEIMER:\nsource of behavior of Americans in the CBI theatre.\nMR. ACHESON:\nI wouldn't disagree with it, but I'm not altogether sure I feel very strongly"
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