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    "ocrText": "-\n1\nMr. Jean Monnet vas kind enough to invite me, with - son, Elliott\nand his wife, to dine on Seturday night at his country homo which is about\nthirty-five minutes out of Paris. He retires there every night. He\nseemed cheerful and relaxed and ready to talk.\nThe Far East is, of course, on everybody's mind and I wns rather\ninterested in the things be soid. He thinks France should give up\nIndo-China. If they did so, the expenses for re-arnament at home oould\nbe essily absorbed without making any great sacrifices in their own\nstandard of living. He does not think that anything of the kind should\nbe done in North Africa because France has been nuch longer in North\nAfrion, and in addition, it is right at their backsoor. or course, if\nthe wave of nationaliom succeeds, there 1s no assurance that it will\nnot spreed. Prenco has been so long in North Africe end accomplished\n80 little in reising the standard of living and in giving the people\neducation that I do not know how long they omn hope to keep their power\nunchallenged.\nIn Asia Mr. Monnet feels that all of us play into the hands of the\ncommunists. We should long ago have recognized the great movement for\nnationalism which is sweeping over that whole area and even though there\nwas infiltration by the comunists and nationalism ves used by them, we should\nnot be fighting against it. He alao said ve should have offered our\nhelp in the economic field or in any field that they desired and cheerfully\nhave assured then that it wss their basiness as to what kind of a govern-\nment they set up. He feels that because of the fact that Russia could\nnot supply the vhole area with the things they need, like locomotives and\nmachinery, they would undoubtedly have turned to the vest and ve would\nhave had a better chance to keep them free from communist domination\nthan we have had in fighting them in a way which the communists have been"
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