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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\n- 23 -\non China as you did as quick as you did, If Mr. Pleven said. \"I'm being\nperfectly honest with you. At first, we thought maybe the Chinese\ndidn't want to see large United Nations forces nearby, in Korea, and\nwe thought maybe that is why they crossed the river. But since they\ncrossed the 38th Parallel, and went on into South Korea, we reached the\nsame conclusion about the Chinese communists that you did. We will\nsupport the United States resolution on aggression in the United Nations.\nWe will stay with you. 11\nThe President responded, \"Thank you very much.\"\nMr. Pleven said that his government viewed the situation in the\nFar East as a moral question as well as a military one. Like the\nAmericans, France did not want to be drawn into the Far East so deeply\nas to endanger Europe. But France, like the United States, could not\nthink of giving up to the communists in the Far East.\nUnfortunately, Mr. Pleven went on, France couldn't give the\nmen fighting in Tndo-China the same strong air support that the United\nStates was able to give in Korea. It was just as badly needed in\nIndo-China as in Korea because the Viet Minh are armed by a steady\nstream of equipment from the Chinese communists. France was eager to\nbuild up the Viet Namese just like the United States was building up\nfor\nSECRET\nDEPARTMENT\nADMIN."
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