COLD WAR REVIEW

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30405, 2 April 1964, Page 8

COLD WAR REVIEW

U.S. Victories Claimed

(NJC. Press Assn.— Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 30 The United States was winning the cold war, the State Department said today in a review of the international situation since the end of i 960 It said, however, that there was trouble ahead in some of the poor, developing areas of the world.

The United States had come off best in its major confrontation with the Soviet Union particularly during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. In addition, the United States and its allies had greater unitv military strength, and economic growth than the worlds Communist nations. “Not so simple have been political trends in the less developed countries of the free world, which show minuses as well as pluses,” the department said.

“In the embattled Far East we have held the line, and in the Near East the tide has run against the Communists. In Africa, however, the countries of the Communist camp are making new contacts and friends. ...” On South Vietnam, the report said, the department’s general view was “that the political-military situation remains grim in certain provinces, but at no point does the war appear to have taken an irreversible turn for the worse. In some aspects, it shows promise of improvement. . . .’’

The situation in the Communist world was described by the department as afflicted with “growing internal malaise and conflict"