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...fall of Indo-China, he continued, would knock over Burma, then Siam, then the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. This, in effect, would tumble the row of island defenses consisting of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. To the south, it then threatened Australia and New Zealand. So, said the President, the possible consequences of the loss were just incalculable to the free world...
...definition made many things clearer to many people. Washington sensed that war might be close, but it was in less of a flap than it was in the weeks when Indo-China was being argued on France's old terms. Democrats in the Senate listened sympathetically while Massachusetts' Democratic John Kennedy declared: "It is important that the Senate and the American people demonstrate their endorsement of Mr. Dulles' objectives, despite our difficulty in ascertaining the full significance of [his] key phrases." What was Kennedy's understanding of "united action?" It means, he said, that, if necessary...
Dulles took the second course last week. He ripped the Indo-China war out of the obsolete context of "France's war" and defined it for what it has really become: a threat to the security of all free nations in the Pacific area. Publicly, he called for "united action" to stop any further Communist aggression. Privately, U.S. diplomats went to work on Britain, France, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and Siam to get them to join-before Geneva-in a pledge to oppose any new Communist advances...
...Concert of Readiness. At his midweek press conference, President Eisenhower dispelled any doubts about his own reluctance to aid Indo-China, and threw his weight behind the Dulles definition...
...Indo-China, said he, is the kind of thing that must not be handled by one nation trying to act alone. We must have a concert of opinion, he said, and a concert of readiness to react in whatever way is necessary. You had a row of dominoes set up, said Ike, and you knocked over the first one, and what would happen to the last one was the certainty that it would go over very quickly...