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...Five Mice. But what day, and where? The West's experts on the Communist mind try to imagine themselves in the Kremlin and look around the world from there, trying to see the world through Stalin's cat's eyes. The main mice in sight: Indo-China, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany...
...part of the Korean decision, the U.S. has decided to strengthen its help to the anti-Communist forces in Indo-China. If the U.S. moves fast, Indo-China can be saved-unless a Chinese Communist army crosses the border. But that would be a costly move for the Kremlin to make. Indo-Chinese do not like the Chinese, and Asians would be horrified at such "imperialism" by one Asiatic country against another...
President Truman's decision to defend Korea set off a chain reaction that ran through the Far East. He announced that the U.S. would defend Formosa and step up its help to two other governments, the Philippines and Indo-China, which were fighting Communist rebellion. The immediate reaction of the Philippine government was a statement from Defense Secretary Ruperto Kangleon that if the U.S. would take care of the Communist threat from outside the country, the Filipinos would speed up their campaign against the Huks in Luzon. Three days after the Truman decision, the first U.S. planes arrived...
...Intelligence Agency, produced a secret report dated June 20 describing intense activity north of the 38th parallel. It warned that the Communists were "capable" of launching an attack at any time. But the same thing, he pointed out, was true of several other areas-Western Germany, Yugoslavia, Formosa or Indo-China. Nobody, said Hillenkoetter, could tell just when the attack itself might come, since such decisions can be made or unmade in a matter of hours...
...would take time and lives. But what if the Kremlin's masterminds chose to set other small fires around Communism's vast periphery? Without involving themselves in declared war, they could blockade Berlin or Vienna, send Kurds into Turkey or Iran, launch Chinese Communist armies into Indo-China or Burma...