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...diehards of the Far Eastern Division, led by Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, W. Walton Butterworth (whose May appointment has not yet been confirmed in the Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...
...Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia...
...million kitty, Kennan argued, would permit a start on the only dynamic policy now proposed from any source-a systematic interference with Communist organization of East Asia. Obviously, it would need privacy and finesse in application, which the discretionary feature of the Republican amendment would make possible...
...Kennan pressed the argument...
...Kennan, like almost all U.S. officials, dismissed the possibility of an Asiatic Marshall Plan, or a Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty. But, he reasoned, Southeast Asia is potentially self-sufficient, and still tied flimsily to the West by frayed cords of the past. He thought the West might be able to build that part of the world into a loose, anti-Communist economic federation by friendly assistance and some money...