U.S. POLICY DEFINED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27375, 14 June 1954, Page 9

U.S. POLICY DEFINED

“Peace Without Surrender”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 pan.) WHITTIER (California), June 13. The United States must support the Asian cause, including independence, to defeat the new. Communist techniques of aggression evidence in IndoChina, the Vice-President (Mr Richard Nixon) said yesterday. In an address to the graduating class of his alma mater, Whittier College, Mr Nixon said these techniques involved the use of a foreign-controlled, directed, and inspired revolution. “The natives of the country they desire to dominate do the fighting for them,” Mr Nixon said. “And they accomplish this by winning the leaders over to the Communist cause.

“The record clearly shows that there is only one threat to the peace of the world—the one which is presented by the international Communist conspiracy, with its power centre in the Soviet Union,” he said. “Except for the Communists, every nation in the world has rejected war as an instrument of national policy.” He said that because of the United States policy of “peace without surrender,” co-operating with the United Nations, maintaining military strength, and emphasising retaliatory power, the chances for overt Communist aggression had been reduced to a minimum.

In outlining what he termed America’s policy of “peace without surrender,” Mr Nixon said: “In dealing with the Communist threat, we cannot accomplish this objective by a policy of weakness. Such a policy will lead to war. The history of dictatorships bears out that conclusion. For that reason, our policy is one of strength, based on these principles: “We must recognise that we can’t do the job alone. We need allies all over the world. We, therefore, cooperated with the United Nations in resisting aggression in Korea. We have called for united action to resist aggression in South-east Asia. We are developing alliances in South America, in Asia, and in. Europe to resist Communist aggression. “Wfe are maintaining our military strength at home and the military strength of our allies at a high level, not because we want war, but because we believe that is the only way to get peace in dealing with the Communist threat.

“We have adopted a new military policy, which places primary reliance on mobile, retaliatory power, to be used against the major source of aggression at our discretion. We have done this, not because we want an atomic war, but because we don’t want one.”