11/02/1949
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"The United States terminated its military government in Korea upon the inauguration of the Government of the Republic of Korea and recognized the new government on New Year's Day, 1949."
"The people of the United States have long had sympathetic feelings for the Korean people."
"The Soviet Union refused to permit the United Nations Commission to enter its zone."
"Korea has become a testing ground in which the validity and practical value of the ideals and principles of democracy which the Republic is putting into practice are being matched against the practice..."