AMERICAN POLICY CRITICISED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 7

AMERICAN POLICY CRITICISED

Role Of “Massive Stagnation”

(Rec. 11 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, June 11. The Eisenhower Administration’s policy towards Indo-China had progressed from “massive retaliation to massive stagnation, if not massive disintegration,’’ the Washington “Post” said today.

“There is now ample evidence for everyone that the United States does not intend to intervene in Indo-China short of overt Chinese Communist military action,” it declared in a leading article.

“The decision may be right, though perhaps for the wrong reason,” it added. “The military situation has deteriorated too far, the political troubles have been too long unremedied, the relations with our Allies have been too frayed, to permit the prompt and effective stand that in other circumstances ought to have been made.” The newspaper said: “Let us hope that there now will be a moratorium on tough talk and on the idea that words are equivalent to action. No American can take any satisfaction m the humiliation of his country and the plight of Indo-China.”