NEW WARNING TO CHINA
LOS ANGELES, June 11. The United States Secretary of State (Mr John Foster Dulles) said today that the United States would ‘‘meet the issue squarely” in case of open Chinese Communist aggression in South-east Asia.
Declaring that overt military moves by the Peking regime would be “a deliberate threat to the United States itself,” Mr Dulles said the United States Government would “of course” invoke United Nations procedures and consult its allies.
“But we could not escape ultimate responsibility for decisions closely touching our own security and selfdefence,” he added. At present, Mr Dulles said the United States would not be justified in considering intervention in IndoChina without the aid and support of other free nations.
Also, France must promise not to withdraw from the fight, and certain other conditions must be met..
Mr Dulles’s speech, made to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, was the first public United States official statement that France would have to stay in the Indo-China battle if it wished American help.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27375, 14 June 1954, Page 9
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