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Dulles took up the question of possible Chinese Communist aggression in Asia, outside Korea. "Many believe," he said, "that neither the First World War nor the Second World War would have occurred if the aggressor had known what the United States would do. It is even more probable that the Korean war would not have occurred if the aggressor had known what the United States would...
...signing the 131-article treaty, all six EDC members promise to regard an attack on one as an attack upon all. And all 14 members of NATO, including the U.S., are treaty-bound to come to the aid of any part of EDC attacked by an aggressor. The U.S. and Britain, who would not belong to EDC, separately guarantee to treat a "threat to the integrity or unity of EDC" as a "threat to their own security." A German attempt to bolt EDC would presumably constitute such a threat...
Secretary of State Dulles spoke: "This is a solemn hour . . . For the first time in history, an international organization has stood against an aggressor ... All free nations, large and small, are safer today because the ideal of collective security has been implemented." Dulles promised that in the political conference the U.S. would press for a united Korea. He, too, sounded a warning: "Let us recognize that the need for effort and for sacrifice has not passed . . . Let us, this time, not relax...
...victory of the kind I have in mind will have to be followed by a peace without vengeance. The U.N. Charter provides for all manner of actions to repel aggression, but it makes no provision for the ultimate punishment of the aggressor once the fruits of his aggression are taken away from him ... It does not foresee the use of force to secure the fruits of victory in terms of land and power...
Korea is a war in which the U.S. 1) within six months, decisively defeated the original aggressor, North Korea; 2) has fought inconclusively for 2½ years with a second, Red China. It is an international war, piled onto a civil war, undertaken in behalf of the "free world." It is the first U.N. war, the first...