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    "ocrText": "TOP\nOFORET\n- 19 -\nThe President asked the Prime Minister if he had any questions.\nThe Prime Minister said, if the President would excuse him\nfor a moment, he would like to translate some of General Bradley's remarks\nto General Juin.\nAfter a few moments of discussion in French between the Prime\nMinister and General Juin, the former turned to the President and\nexplained that he had been telling General Juin of General Bradley's\nremarks that military considerations are responsible for the slowing\ndown of communist advances.\nThe President said that he wanted the Prime Minister to under-\nstand that we were being very careful to keep the fighting confined to\nKorea; that is, we were not overlapping into China. But if the Russians\nthemselves get into the fight, or if we are attacked directly from bases\nin Manchuria, the President said, \"I want you to know we will do whatever\nis necessary to meet the situation. We can't let our men be slaughtered by\nbandits. That's all they are, just bandits, and we won't stand by and\nlet our boys die.\"\nGeneral Bradley said he had forgotten to give the Prime Minister\nand General Juin the total number of allied troops. There are in Korea,\nhe said, seven United States Divisions, ten ROK Divisions, and the\nequivalent of one more division made up of troops from Great Britain,\nTOP\nCLORET"
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