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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 3, Track 2, Page 7\nkind of an impact in the idea of the UN supervising an armistice line or\nsomething of that sort which has its impact on the people in the immediate\nvicinity.\nMR. RUSK:\nI think it also gives the leadership of other countries a better theory of\nthe case to support a view before their own public, to be able to cast it\nin UN terms and not just in terms of supporting the US. I think that's a\npretty important part here on this picture.\nMR. JESSUP:\nAnd I think it comes out clearly--to get back to the financial and economic\nfield-where many of the Asian governmeths will take something from repre-\nsentatives of the International Bank, telling them they've got to get their\nbooks in order, they've got to have a decent budget system, and so on, or\nthey won't get any help. If the US told them that, they'd say, \"Well, we're\nnot going to have you running our government; we'd rather go into bank-\nruptcy. We'd rather starve, go into chaos.' The Bank tells them that and\nthey say, \"Well, if the United Nations agency says this, why, that's all\nright.\"\nTRUMAND\nMR. NITZE:\nIt isn't quite that simple.\nEs ARCHIVES A -VATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN\nMR. RUSK:\nThey do take it a lot better, Paul.\nCONTRAMET\nMR. NITZE:\nKurt (Bert?) Knapp got hurled out of Brasil, as a representative of the\nInternational Bank, telling thém that they ought to put their books in order\nbefore the International Bank went\nMR. JESSUP:\nBut on the other hand\n(confused)\nMR. NITZE:\n(They didn't humiliate him?); he was just ananthema down there.\nMR. JESSUP:\nBut the bank fellows scceeded in doing stuff in Indonesia and Thailand and\nalso, to a certain extent, I think, in Pakistan, which our people have not\nbeen able to induce them to do.\nMR. ACHESON:\nWell, now, Oppje, what shall we do. It's a quarter to six. I've got\nsomething here on the Japanese Peace Treaty--shall we do that this evening?\nDR. OPPENHEIMER: I should think as always that it was your own tempo and strength; that you"
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