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OCR Page 1 of 165/75/54 - Reel 5, track 1, Page 1
VOICE:
That we've been thrust into a position by this desperate attempt to
MR. Mc ghee
maintain short-term stability. Now this thing has come on fairly
recently with, in that, Korea has greatly heightened the necessi ty
for short-term stability which we may not have felt. For example,
immediately after the war when the Indonesian thing was tackled, but
I don't know of any positive steps we have taken since Indonesia to
disturb the status quo.
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VOICE:
How about the 24th? The announcement of it?
VOICE: Mr. Mc Thee
Well, that's rather vague
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VOICE:
How about commerce?
VOICE:
That doesn't change any
(confused)
VOICE:
President Roosevelt's position, at least I believe, and you can correct
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me, had a tremendous influence on both sides: both the colonial
countries and on the British in forcing the action which they took.
(confused)
MR. NITZE:
I thought I heard you say not a half hour ago that the British were moving
much too rapidly in Nigeria. That this is a mistake. That they were
giving these people their independence before they were ready for it and
that this was a dangerous thing that the British were doing and that the
British government was schizophrenic in moving forward at this rate in
Nigeria when they were moving in the opposite direction in other areas.
VOICE:
I believe that. not Nigeria, but the Gold Coast was what I said. I'm
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not saying what we should do. All I am pointing out is that this desire
for short-term stability, which I think has been a post-war factor, but
it has been accentuated since Korea, has lead us into a position where
we want to maintain the status quo.
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