02/28/1946
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"The United States is now providing relief and a small amount of assistance in rehabilitation to the Republic of Korea under Public Law 793-80th Congress."
"Aid in the restoration of the Korean economy should be less costly to the United States in the end than a continued program of relief."
"The survival and progress of the Republic toward a self-supporting, stable economy will have an immense and far-reaching influence on the people of Asia."
"All Americans who have come to know the Korean people appreciate their fierce passion for freedom and their keen desire to become an independent nation."