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After weeks of intense behind-scenes discussion in Washington, the U.S. firmly made up its mind about Indo-China, and this week Secretary of State Dulles spoke it. The U.S. does not intend to accept a Communist victory in Indo-China, he said. The U.S. feels that the threat should be met with "united action," even though "this might involve serious risks." And if Red China sends "its own army into Indo-China, the grave consequences might not be confined to Indo-China...
Turning to the subject of Red China, Dulles drove down a few more important stakes. The U.S., he said: ¶ Does not intend to recognize Communist China because "diplomatic recognition is a voluntary act," and Communist China "has been consistently and viciously hostile to the U.S." ¶ Opposes the admission of Communist China to the United Nations because it is a "regime which is a convicted aggressor, which . . . continues to promote the use of force in violation of the principles of the United Nations...
...Intends to discuss only Korea and Indo-China with Red China at Geneva, hopes Geneva will bring Peking to cease and desist its design for conquest, but does not intend to "give Communist China what it wants from us, merely in exchange for promises of future good behavior...
...decided that air-atomic power is its sole weapon. In the new military budget are funds for the biggest Army and Navy the U.S. has ever maintained in peacetime. The U.S. is still willing to accept sound international control of atomic weapons. The U.S. does not intend to turn every little war into a general atomic war, but it does intend to use the threat of "massive retaliation" as a deterrent. It has already warned the Chinese Communists that direct intervention in Indo-China or new aggression in Korea would mean broader retaliation by means and at places chosen...
...that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office boy and you'll stay cold. I happen to be a Post-Dispatch reporter and I intend to act like one-a warm one." (The paper paid...