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    "ocrText": "TOP SLIPE\n- 19 -\nmeant that the European countries would have to make all the necessary\neffort on the ground by themselves to contain the Russians for at least\n90 days. He would bear in mind, Juin said, what Bradley had said about\npre-shipment of equipment.\nGeneral Bradley remarked that the Prime Minister and General\nJuin should not overlook the fact that there will be a number of U. S.\ndivisions in Europe and, we hope, they will begin arriving fairly soon.\nAt this point, the President reminded the Prime Minister that\nquite a debate was going on in the United States about the constitutional\npowers of the President to send troops abroad.\nMr. Pleven smiled and nodded, saying he fully understood the\ndifficulties. The French, he said, were deeply grateful for everything\nthe U. S. was doing. They, like many other European countries, had been\nstripped clean by the Germans. They had had to start from scratch and\nthey had nothing but men. All their factories had been destroyed or\ntaken away. That is why everything the United States could do means so\nmuch.\nGeneral Marshall referred again to the speed with which we could\nbuild up air strength in Western Europe, provided the fields are fixed\nup in advance. The importance of this should not be overlooked.\nAs for the broad aspects of our defense program, General Marshall\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES &\nRECORDS\nADMIN\nGOVERNMENT\n10P SLORE"
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