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OCR Page 1 of 4March 26, 1948
Policitine
General Marshall, representing the Executive branch of
the Government in this matter, has two heavy burdens: the finding
of some solution for a highly complicated problem, and the persuading
of important groups of American and other opinion to cooperate with
a proper solution. General Marshall has been using for these two
purposes the regular staff of his Department. The question is whether
it would be useful for him, in addition, to select and make use of
special assistance.
It is in the great and long-standing American tradition
to
for the American government XI make use of two practical principles
of government in a matter of this sort:
(1) To bring in additional and resourceful brains,
whenever useful, for the purpose of possibly finding new ideas for
straightening out kinks that seem to be difficult or impossible.
Sometimes the Government calls in a man already in the Government, and
sometimes it calls in some satisfactory person who happens at the
moment not to be in the Government.
For example, when considerable sections of American
public opinion were critical of the course of our Government in China,
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