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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nWhen he had finished reading, the President said that\nhe wanted the men present to be completely briefed, and he was\ngoing to ask the Secretary of State to give them the same briefing\nhe gave the Cabinet yesterday.\nThe Secretary of State said that his Department agreed\nfully with the Intelligence estimate which the President had just\nread, that what he had to say would be, to some degree, in repeti-\ntion to what the President had read. Since the end of June, it\nhad been clear that the Soviet Union has begun an all-out attack\nagainst the power position of the United States. It was clear that\nthe Soviet leaders recognized that their policy might bring on a general\nwar, and it was equally clear that they were prepared to run this\nrisk. One of the clearest indications we have on Soviet intentions\n\"INATIONAL\nis Soviet propaganda, which seems to work in reverse. The Soviets\nARCHIVES.A\n:\nSERVICES\nattack us all along the line for things which they are doing. For\nexample, they attack our intervention in Korea as \"aggression,\" and\nthey say that our actions in Korea are very provocative. They are\nattacking us most shrilly on Formosa, Japan, and the seating of the\nChinese communists in the United Nations. Soviet propaganda, the\nSecretary continued, harps on our efforts to work out a peace treaty"
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