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With all the finesse of a lucky Bridge player, Harold E. Stassen has captured needed prestige for the United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government...
...that nearly 5,000 experts have been trained since the Columbo's formation in 1950. Without the skills of these new technicians the recent agricultural and industrial progress would have been impossible. Likewise, there is little objection to Stassen's argument that Asia needs the money diverted from the Indo-China crisis more than Europe does. And now that Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines have joined the plan, U.S 'help is especially necessary for the Columbo programs...
...world scene, the President recalled, war raged in Indo-China as well as in Korea. Iran, with 60% of the world's known petroleum reserves, lay in deadly danger. Suez and Trieste were constant threats to peace. Even in the Americas, Communists were ready to take over Guatemala. All these were problems handed over to the Republican Administration...
...truce in Indo-China, however salutary on other grounds, has not helped France's financial position in the slightest. America had already been bearing the full costs of the war. On the other hand, a sharp cut in military expenses at home is only possible if one has blind faith in "peaceful coexistence" and on the Kremlin's good will...
After a summer of doldrums and defeats-Geneva, Indo-China, the death of EDC-the democracies had suddenly rallied and rolled out some new and hand some diplomatic field-pieces: the all but completed Anglo-Egyptian settlement over Suez, the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement, the harmonious partition of Trieste and, above all, the potentially history-changing Act of London. With this quick parade of successes, the Atlantic alliance seemed to recover the ground, and the spirit, that were lost with EDC. Europe, with the potent help of the U.S., had produced a new plan to rearm the West Germans...