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    "ocrText": "- 6 -\nHe said he thought \"off the cuff\" that there wasn't any danger\nof the United Nations getting us into such a fix. General Marshall\nsaid he wanted to say, in conclusion, that we should start to work\n-\nat once on further military estimates which could be submitted to the\nnew Congress in January. He asked General Bradley if he had anything\nfurther to add.\nGeneral Bradley said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff would not\nrecommend that any additional Reserve components be ordered up now.\nHe said that there were no additional troops that could be sent to\nGeneral MacArthur and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not plan to\ntry and send any others. He added that this decision might be changed,\nbut he doubted it. The Joint Chiefs would like to see a bigger repre-\nsentation of troops of other United Nations forces fighting in Korea\nprovided that they really could fight and that they would not prove to\nbe too great a burden on us for supplies. General Bradley said that\nthe Joint Chiefs felt just as strongly as the three Secretaries that\nwe yhould not let ourselves be pulled into any war in China.\nGeneral Marshall said that he would like to add a few remarks\nto General Bradley's earlier description of the current military\nsituation. H e pointed out that our forces in northeastern Korea\n\"INATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\n:\nSERVICE\""
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