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    "ocrText": "1 .2\nWe here at home in America naturally take special pride\nin the superb achievements of our own soldiers, sailors,\nmarines and airmen. They have written a glorious new page in\nmilitary history. We can all be proud of them.\nIt is also a source of pride to us that our country was\nasked to furnish the first commander of United Nations! troops.\nIt is fortunate for the world that we had the right man for\nthis, purpose a man who is a very. great soldier - General\nDouglas, MacArthur.\nNow I want Wake Island: to be a symbol of our unity of pur-\npese for world peace. I. want (to see world peace firom Wako\nIsland west all the way .around and back again. I want to see\nworld peace from: Wake Island. all the way east and back again\n--\nand we are going to get it!!\nThe United Nations, action in Korea is of supreme importance\nfor all the peoples of the world.\nFor, the first time in history the nations who want peace\nhave taken up arms under the banner of: an international organ-\nization to put down aggression. Under that banner, the banner\nof tha United Nations, they are sucgeading. This is a tremen-\ndous step forward in. the age-old struggle to establish the\nrule of law in thé world.\nThe people of San Francisco have shown that they appreciate\nthe importance of the United Nations as a vital force in world\naffairs. I. am told that in this area alone seventy-one\norganizations are colebrating United Nations week.\nThe United Nations was estublished here in this very build-\ning five years ago. It was founded in the hope and in the\nbelief that mankind could hav.e just. and lasting peace. And I\nmade the first speech. to that organization that was made to\nit after the Charter was signed.\nToday as a result, of the Korean struggle. the United Nations\nis stronger than, it has jever been. We .know now that the United\nNations can create a system of international order with the\nauthority to maintain peace.\nWhén I met with General MacArthur we discussed plans for\ncompleting the task of bringing peace to Korea. We talked\nabout the plans for establishing a \"unified, independent, and\ndemocratic government in that country in accordance with the\nresolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations.\nIt has been our policy ever since World War II to achieve\nthese results for Korca.\nOur sole purpose in Korea is to establish neace and\nindépendence. Our troops will stay there only. so long as they\nare needed by the United Nations for that purposé. : We seek\nno. territory or special privilege in Korea or anywhere else.\nWe. have. no. aggressi ve designs in Korea or in-,any other place\nin the Far East or elsewhere. And, I want that to be perfectly\nclear to the whole world.\nNo country in the world which really wants peace has any\nreason to fear the United States of America.\nThe only victory we seck 1a the victory of peace.\nPreservation Copy"
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