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    "ocrText": "HEARINGS OF SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1951\n160Nt we havi The Corferend\nfor the bilestion of provianis\nhoar the men to make up our armed forces. You batala the\nCongress and I think the country if you would give us some 2\nexact figures, some estimates as to how many additional mem\nor , the árthea forces, you think would be desirable in\nying speume 1661\nthe Far IIS il moil\nIt would 1601 'Be difficult bas\nexact figures in advance what you have to\" have byg\nis not a unilateral proposition.\nupon the relativity of the two forces engaged\nSo, it would be quite ridiculous at any stage of the campaign\nto try to predict exactly the norm of force that you would need\nto conclude the campaign.\n*\n979W 9W Mörse sgin ism JN ons\nSenator you expect thé Hussian Communists\n1\nof\nmean the Chinese Communist case your pro-\ngram was carried out, to call upon the Soviet Union to come\nto their assistance under this alliance?\nGeneral MacArthur. That, again, I wouldn't speculate upon.\nThere are many things that they might do. They might call\nupon the Soviet for air assistance; they mght call for other\ntypes of supplies that would enable them to meet the\nconditions. Whether they would wish to have the Soviet\ntroops and forces injected into, the very heart of China, I\ndon't know, sir.\nTRUMAN\n*\n*\n\"INATIONA\nt\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nADMIN.\nc s GOVERN\n, Senator\nis of the greatest single\none would of you Fractors Whieh A prevent the\nsay that ne patimy ad\ned Nations from working as it should?\nMacArthur. I wouldn't discuss the subject from the\npoint of Europe. I have been away in the Far East for four-\nteen years, and I don't pose as-not only as an expert, bat\nhaying anything more than the ordinary run-of-the-hoppe\nRhowledge of the special conditions that exist there.\ndu'senator Lodge. Thank you.\n0091\nyou think that in contemplating the general\nlenge of building and organizing peace, that we should\naffiend and improve the United Nations or that we should\nfollow the course outlined in the Vandenberg Resolution sor\ncalli a conference and setting up a new organization?\nGeneral MacArthur. I woald nom now! Istensi\nSenster odt mainue unn\nPreservation Copy"
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