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    "ocrText": "5/15/54 - Reel 5, track 1, Page 3\nAfrica is just as close as Indo China, but we don't say anything about\nFrench North Africa today.\nVOICE:\nYes, but I can remember -\nVOICE:\nBefore the Korean War you are saying that we darn well ought not to rock\nthe North African boat. (confused)\nMR. NITZE: ?\nI'm not criticising anybody, I'm just saying -- I'm just characterizing\nMc glace\nthe policy we've gotten into-wwether it's right or wrong.\nSTRUINING\nstating\n(confused) But it's not a normal attitude\nE ADMIN VATIONAL\nVOICE:\nThe question is whether it is right or wrong. (confused)\nMR. NITZE: Mc ghee I think when you decide or wrong, you\nwhether it's right have to address\nyourself, as you say, to individual situations. Now in the Middle East\nI've explained why we don't take any of the moves that might result in\nsome real solution to the problem there. For example, any moves that\nare going to result in any solution has got to be something drab. We can\nget together and pass little programs for the refugees and urge the people\nto make peace and all that sort of thing from now to kingdom come, but it\nmade no demonstrable progress over the seven years that I have been\nassociated with the problem; so you have to do something more drastic.\nOne drastic thing you might do, for example, is to encourage air immunit\nbecause then you get rid of all these little countries which have no\nsignificance. That we would not dare to do because it would make so\nmany people mad; and then we recztate would create momentary (?) instability\nAnother thing you might do is, for example, to get the British to relieve\nthemselves of their treaty position which creates a great deal of trouble,\nbut that we don't dare do because they are, we think, and probably correctly\nso, stabilizing factors at the present time and anyway we don't want to\naffront the British, so we don't do that. so, of all the other things\nyou can think of which we might do if we were really concerned with the\n0001888"
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