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...fall of Indo-China, he continued, would knock over Burma, then Siam, then the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia. This, in effect, would tumble the row of island defenses consisting of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. To the south, it then threatened Australia and New Zealand. So, said the President, the possible consequences of the loss were just incalculable to the free world...
...grant these people easy freedom of choice for fear that this would encourage nationalists in North Africa to step up their own pressure for independence. For Nehru, on the other hand, the enclaves are a galling reminder that colonialism has not yet been pushed entirely off the Indian peninsula. "It is in the nature of things unthinkable," Nehru said, "for us to allow foreign pockets to remain in India...
Just as we can beat the field, our pals the British are almost as unbeatable, regularly whipping the French. It is only against the stalwart American (known with withering scorn as "Colonist") that a hero of Duquesne or the Peninsula loses his sense of strategy and decency...
Secure with American military aid, dictator France is renewing Spanish agitation for control of Gibraltar by planned riots and diplomatic insults. Mindful of American eagerness to hold airfields on the Iberian peninsula, France has embarrassed the British by acting when the U.S. wants to please him. The United states is reluctant to take sides in the dispute, a policy which jeopardized the British position...
...slip of the peninsula...