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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nSECRET\nD.p. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy NLT-/TC\n, NARS Date 7-16-75\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nWASHINGTON\nJanuary 15, 1947\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT\nSubject: Withdrawal of Troops from the Philippines\nI have received a message from Ambassador McNutt in Manila\nstating that President Roxas has requested him to correct a false\nimpression which he fears may have been left with you recently by\na Mr. H. E. Beyster of the Beyster Corporation of Detroit. Mr.\nBeyster's firm has a contract to do certain work for the Philippine\nGovernment and he has written to President Roxas stating that he\ncalled on you and the Secretary of War and that he was assured by\nboth of you that all United States troops would be out of the\nPhilippines in sixty days.\nPresident Roxas is extremely anxious that you and Mr.\nPatterson be informed that Mr. Beyster was not authorized to make\nany representations on this subject to anyone and that the with-\ndrawal of our troops from all areas in the Philippines does not\ncorrespond in any way to President Roxas' wishes.\nThis statement of President Roxas' position on this question\nconfirms previous information which the Department has received.\nAttention in particular is invited to the Department's memorandum\nto you of December 24, 1946 which recommended that the Secretary\nof War be authorized to continue the maintenance of limited forces\nin the Philippines.\nI am also transmitting the substance of the Ambassador's\nAND\nmessage to the Secretary of War.\nSERVICE''"
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