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    "ocrText": "117 endorse the President's proposal; declare historic decision to be made is\ngreater than Monroe Doctrine or our expansion to West Coast century ago;\nfeel outcome of situation may decide our own destiny as a free people; say\nthe President's \"brave and admirable address\" made a strong case for a\nprecedent-breaking foreign policy; are convinced Congress must give the\nPresident what he seeks or we will face most serious consequences with the\nalternative of leaving weak nations at mercy of expanding Red empire; urge\nCongress to accept recommendations without partisan debate; point out our\nchoice is to assume our place as principal world power or give Moscow a,\nblank check; call our decision as crucial as Roosevelt plea to give lend-\nlease and convoys to Britain and France; regard message in speech as \"plain\nas a pike-staff\" though it was \"masterpiece of indirection\" with Soviet\nUnion not being mentioned once; emphasize fact British kept world at peace\nfor century without Communism and we must now do so with Communism as foe;\ninsist we have inherited this mantle from British and cannot escape our\nresponsibility.\n33 see situation \"full of ominous possibilities\" and placing on Congress the\nburden of most difficult and delicate decision; want Congress and people to\ngive problem most judicious and deliberative study; feel choice is not\n\"whether\" but \"how\" and \"when\"; believe steps should not be taken without\nknowing all contingencies and being determined to see things through; say\nthe President could be wrong in overestimating consequences of delay for\nfull study; warn against acting on theory money is cure-all.\n20 on United Nations role in crisis.\n16 support the President in suggesting action be taken outside world\norganization since UN is not organized or equipped to undertake task;\nfeel people should understand this.\n4 argue we must decide either to make UN our primary objective and such\nissues as Greece and Turkey secondary or put UN aside momentarily and\ngive first consideration to situations we once hoped UN would remedy;\nsay UN could at least authorize us to act in its stead.\n13 in opposition to Truman course.\n9 complain that \"crisis whipped up by the President has no basis in reality\"\nand that the President is playing tricks with words; accuse him of\n\"babbling\" about peace and security while inviting hazards of war and\ndissolution of our republic; ask \"what business is it of ours?\"; say\nif democracy can't live in rest of world without us going to war every\nfew years, \"we ought to let it die\". (3, NY Daily Worker; 2, Chicago\nTribune; 1 each, NY PM, Washington Times-Herald, Wheeling Intelligencer\nand Green Bay, Wis., Gazette.)\n3 criticize speech in what might be called psuedo-patriotic spirit; charge\nvagueness, incompleteness and possible hiding of secret commitments;\nstress great likelihood of war. (All lengthy editorials. Two from\nRichmond Times-Dispatch and Richmond News-Leader, 3/13. Third from\nRaleigh News & Observer, 3/14, including entire Times-Dispatch editorial.)\n1 declares \"President Truman's demand\nmarks a day of national shame\nfor our country\"; accuse him of \"selling the American people the 'fool's\ngold of empire', in complete abandonment of Roosevelt's vision of a\nstable postwar peace\"; predicts \"the empire-grab, masked by anti-\nCommunism hysteria, is doomed to failure\". (New York Daily Worker, 3/13)\n7 say speech is comparable to Roosevelt's famous \"quarantine\" speech against\naggressors, made under analogous circumstances in 1937; feel the President\nhas made \"relatively modest proposals\" to meet Russian threat; believe it\nessential that assistance program be supervised by competent military and\ncivilian personnel.\nARCHIVO AND\nRECORDE\nSERVICE\"\n-2-"
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