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"The most effective Soviet propaganda line in the
Middle East, or in any other area where there are large
numbers of poor or oppressed people, is to repeat,
ad
nauseam, that the United States has nothing to offer but
a program of reaction. Radio Moscow and its parrots in
countries like Iran and the Arab States din continually
into the receptive ears of landless peasants that the United
States is on the side of the absentee landlords, the feudal
barons, and the medieval clergy.
"We must make it clear, by every means in our power,
that we have something better to offer than merely opposi-
tion to change. It is true that we oppose a change to
communism in the Middle East, with its oppression more heavy
than any landlord of Pasha, its bigotry more ferocious than
any mullah.
"But we are anxious to bring about a change for the
better in that area." 20
the
VI. FAR EAST
Request for Aid for Korea, - The continuation of economic
assistance to Korea was recommended by President Truman in a
message to Congress, June 7, in which he pointed out that "Korea
has become a testing ground in which the validity and practical
value of the ideals and principles of democracy which the Republic
is putting into practice are being matched against the practices
of communism which have been imposed upon the people of north
Korea." The present division of Korea along the 38th parallel,
he stated, was never intended by the US; the sole purpose of
the line was to facilitate acceptance by the Soviet and US forces
of the surrender of Japanese troops north and south of that line;
and immediately after the completion of the Japanese surrender,
the US through direct negotiations with the USSR sought to.
restore the unity of Korea,
21
A summary of actions 1947-1949, released to the press June 8,
stated that the US will soon have completed the withdrawal of its
occupation forces from Korea, in accordance with the General
Assembly's resolution of December 12, 1948, to the effect that
the occupying powers should "withdraw their occupation forces
from Korea as early as practicable. The statement emphasized
the need of continued support by the entire community of nations
to assure the security and stability of this new nation, "so long
as the authority of the Republic of Korea continues to be chal-
lenged within its own territory by the alien tyranny which has
been arbitrarily imposed upon the people of north Korea. "22
20
Bulletin, June 19, p. 801.
21
Bulletin, June 19, p. 781,
22
Bulletin, June 19, p. 781.
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