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    "ocrText": "5/15/54 - Track 5 -reel 1 - Page 14\nAcheson: we tried to pick up what we could--the Japanese, the islands there,\ncreating our interlocking treaties, and in Korea we had to fight and\nthose things were a fact. - specific and understandable. Now when\nwe came to this other part of the world, which we have been talking about\ntoday, a good deal of what George says has justification. I think, at\nleast as I seem to get it in my mind, the interest of the United States\nand its western allies in this area was not primarily that we thought\nthese countries were rapidly going Communist. We did not want the\nCommunist organ to extend its control any further than it had. We thought\nthat the immediate problem was the problem of these countries maintaining\ntheir own liability, both politically and economically. They had no\n(5) FRY\nexperience in government. Their economic and trade relationships were\nupset. The great problem was to keep them on their feet. If they\ncould stay on their feet then their greatest chance was past of their\nfalling in the orbit of the other side. We didn't want to take them\nover; we didn't want to arm them and have them fighting with us. All\nwe wanted them to do was to go along on their own way and stay out of\nthe other fellow's clutches. That was what I seemed to think about.\nNow to do that we thought that there were various programs of political,\neconomiceaall that sort of aid, and if we could hold out. And that would\naccomplish what we had in mind. As the thing went on, in some parts of\nit we thought we ought to band together to have some sort of a military\norganization to resist any sort of insurrection inside, or at least a\nfeeble attack from the outside. It was along those lines that we began\nto address our relations with this part of the world. I had a strong idea\nthat you wanted the people of these countries to be the ones who occupied\ntheir own country. You didn't want to have a Communist group in the country\ntaking it over from the other fellows. Our great interest seemed to be\n0001699"
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