Draft Message from President Harry S. Truman to General Douglas MacArthur
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OCR Page 1 of 5MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO GENERAL MacARTHUR
I want you to know that the situation in Kores is receiving the
utmost attention here and that our efforts are concentrated upon finding
the right decisions on this matter of the gravest importance to the future
of America and to the survival of free peoples everywhere.
I wish in this telegram to let you have my views as to our basic
national and international purposes in continuing the resistance to
aggression in Korea. We need your judgment as to the maximan effort
which could reasonably be expected from the United Nations forces under
your conmand to support the resistance to aggression which we are trying
rapidly to organize on a world-wide basis. This present telegram is not
repeat not to be taken in any sense as a directive. Its purpose is to
give you something of what is in our minds regarding the political factors.
1.
A successful resistance in Korea would serve the following
important purposes:
(a) To demonstrate that aggression will not be accepted by us
or by the United Nations and to provide a rallying point around whibh
the spirits and energies of the free world can be mobilized to moet
the world-wide threat which the Soviet Union now poses.
(b) To deflate the dangerously exxaggerated political and military
SERVICE" RECORDS AND
prestige of Communist China which now threatens to undermine the
conversed
resistance of non-Communist Asia and to consolidate the hold of
Communism on China itself.
(c) To afford more time for and to give direct assistance to
the organization of non-Communist resistance in Asia, both outside
581727 DECLASSIFIED
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PROJECT NLT 78.43
05.00 LTR. 11.28.78
By NLT-HC NARS, Date 1:4:19
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