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...Hawaii this week, on the President's orders, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Maxwell Taylor will sit down once again with top U.S. diplomats and soldiers to discuss the deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia. Lyndon Johnson obviously wants to avoid any drastic action until after the elections, but events may not permit such delay. In the growing debate about what to do, what are the alternatives...
...with only an uncertain neutrality as the declared prize-a dubious war aim, to say the least. On balance, the State Department and Pentagon are convinced that any agreement to neutralize Southeast Asia, even if one would be concluded, could not be enforced. It would be, in Dean Rusk's words, "a formula for surrender"-merely a cover for Red infiltration and eventual Communization of all Viet Nam, which has been the clear Communist purpose ever since Laos was "neutralized...
Realization of this fact brought some tough, sometimes eloquent, talk from the U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week warned that the U.S. intends to stand fast and that the conflict in Laos and South Viet Nam might expand, "if the Communists persist in their course of aggression." With particular emphasis, he added: "This is the signal which must be read with the greatest care in other capitals, and especially in Hanoi and Peking." He also called in Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and sternly admonished him to give his boss the same message...
...their forcefulness, neither Rusk nor Stevenson did much more than reiterate what U.S. policy has been all along-and there was mounting doubt about the efficacy of that policy. "We are rethinking the whole mess," said a State Department official...
...threat of Soviet aggression in Western Europe receded, the alliance became a political assembly of independent-minded states rather than a military coalition huddling under the exclusive U.S. nuclear umbrella. What NATO has yet to prove is that it can rise to broader, subtler challenges. As Dean Rusk put it: "NATO must adapt itself to a situation in which the Communist threat takes more diversified and sophisticated forms, to a situation in which the cohesive element in this alliance must depend upon something more than an imminent military threat...