United States Policy Toward Asia: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 582 pages |
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aggression allies American Asian attack believe BOLTON bombing BROOMFIELD BUNDY Cambodia Chairman Chiang Kai-shek Chinese Communist Party committee communism Communist China Communist regime conflict Congress course defeat defense DUNCAN economic enemy Father DE JAEGHER fear fight forces foreign policy FRASER free world freedom French Geneva Conference going Government guerrilla Hanoi HORNBECK interest Japan Korea Laos leaders leadership mainland Mao Tse-tung ment military million Minh Miss ROPER Moscow munist MURPHY National Liberation Nationalist negotiate North NOTESTEIN nuclear organization peace Peiping Peiping regime Peiping's political population PosSONY present President problem question Red China Red Chinese Representative Republic of China revolution ROBERTSON Russia SEATO Security deletion Senator South Vietnam southeast Asia Soviet Union statement strategy struggle subcommittee Taiwan talk Thailand things tion treaty troops U.S. imperialism U.S. policy United Nations Vietcong Vietnamese WHALLEY ZABLOCKI
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Page 310 - How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.
Page 328 - The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world — and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own Nation.
Page 320 - One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.
Page 297 - ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained...
Page 576 - Each Party recognizes that aggression by means of armed attack in the treaty area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will in that event act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
Page 577 - The purpose of this offer is to assist the Government of Vietnam in developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means.
Page 581 - Vietnam must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves, in accordance with the programme of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation without any foreign interference. 4. The peaceful reunification of Vietnam is to be settled by the Vietnamese people in both zones, without any foreign interference.
Page 328 - We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed upon free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States.
Page 580 - Rusk: 1. The Geneva Agreements of 1954 and 1962 are an adequate basis for peace in Southeast Asia; 2. We would welcome a conference on Southeast Asia or on any part thereof; 3. We would welcome "negotiations without pre-conditions
Page 576 - ... would view any renewal of the aggression in violation of the aforesaid agreements with grave concern and as seriously threatening international peace and security.