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While the U.S. warmed itself with news of Western propaganda victories at the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference in Berlin last week, a chilling scene was quietly enacted in Indo-China. On direct orders from President Eisenhower, some 250 U.S. Air Force technicians landed in Indo-China from U.S. air bases in Japan. They were the vanguard of a major U.S. effort to save Indo-China from going down to defeat - an evidence of the gravest crisis in U.S.-Asian policy since the out break of the war in Korea...
...crisis developed almost without warning. The press, which had overplayed a short-lived Communist foray across the waist of Indo-China last December, had underplayed the more recent and more serious worsening of the French position in Indo-China. Washington thought that France had agreed last year to drive for victory. But the agreement was only paper-deep. Paris' heart simply is not in the Indo-China...
...shek's Nationalist government fell. Although the U.S. was sending him supplies of arms, Chiang was unable to hold control of his troops long enough to make a good try at stopping the Red flood. The difficulties that besieged the Chinese Nationalists are not completely parallel to those in Indo-China, but American expectation that military aid will solve the problem is the same...
...nothing else, the desertion of the villages in Indo-China should remove any delusions in the State Department that military aid is a panacea in the fight against Communism. To return to the early days of the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan when the U.S. seized the tactical offense in the cold war, however, would not be feasible. Such a shift would neglect the primacy of a military balance of power, necessary as the Soviet menace has increased. But the requirements for rifles and tanks should not obscure the advantages of economic and technical assistance...
...India demonstrated that best results in a technical aid program do not come with blatant give-away campaigns. More good was accomplished by the introduction of a ten-dollar modern plough than by a thousand dollars of free rice. And this is the policy that America should follow in Indo-China, as well as in other countries in like situations. The U.S. should attempt to maintain good will among the citizens of Indo-China by convincing them that America is interested in their well being, while supplying them with weapons for battling the Communists...