U.S. “SAVED” FROM INTERVENTION
Kefauver Criticises Policy WASHINGTON, June 9. Senator Estes Kefauver (Democrat, Tennessee) said today that the United States had twice, within recent weeks, “been within a hair’s breadth of openly intervening in the Indo-China war.
“We seemed to have been saved from open hostilities only by the reluctance of the British to join us,” he said. Senator Kefauver said there was a “war party” within the Administration, which was willing for the United States to "go it alone” in Indo-China. This group, he said, had been “sufficiently restrained,” so that for the time being the Administration was steering clear of “open intervention” in Indo-China. «»
"At the moment we are employing merely a creeping intervention,” he said in a Senate speech. Senator Kefauver said there was a serious disagreement within the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff over South-east Asian policy. "It has been said facetiously that the reason the Secretary of State (Mr Dulles) doesn’t announce the policy he is following in relation to Indo-China it that he does not want Admiral Radford to find out what it is,” said Senator Kefauver.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27373, 11 June 1954, Page 11
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