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Should such a policy prevail, the U.S. and South Viet Nam would be committing themselves to a policy of partition, two Viet Nams-a strong, aggressive Communist Viet Nam nourished by Moscow and Peking; a weak, divided but free Viet Nam that will need for some time the pledges and help...
Thus goes the crucial struggle for men's devotion in South Viet Nam. With time and ingenuity, the side of freedom can hope to prevail. "If the people can be sure the Communists will not return," a village elder suggested, "then the people will turn against them. But how can we be sure?" The answer lies in great part beyond the beleaguered man in the Freedom Palace of Saigon. "The Vietnamese people have the will," said Ngo Dinh Diem's ambassador to Washington, "but only the U.S. has the might...
...have power that is great," said Dulles in conclusion. "We have a cause that is just. I do not doubt that we have the fortitude to use that power in defense of that just cause. If that will is manifest, then I believe that peace and freedom will prevail...
Atomic power is nearer than even Woodbury acknowledges, for the Atomic Energy Commission has announced plans to accept bids on April 15 for construction of America's first private reactors. In his casual assumption that free enterprise will naturally prevail in the atomic power industry, Woodbury skims over many decisions that Americans should make now. The atomic power industry will present even fewer elements of risk to private operators than steam-generated power stations. For the government has supplied all the technological research, and it will inevitably maintain sole responsibility for delivery of nuclear fuel to power stations, and disposal...
...time may come-and I believe that it will come-when Russians of stature will put first their national security and the welfare of their own people . . . [If they] should prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile negotiations and practical agreements between the U.S. and the new Russia." Meanwhile, international Communism's aggressive designs must be thwarted. The Secretary of State explained why, to do so in the Formosa Strait, the U.S. was required to advance its defensive perimeter toward the China mainland. "The U.S. has no commitment and no purpose to defend the coastal islands...