U.S.A. PLEDGES ITS MIGHT

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 15

U.S.A. PLEDGES ITS MIGHT

‘Will Help Asians Remain Free’

(N.ZP.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, May 26.

The United States tonight pledged that it would continue “by all necessary means” to help the “free nations of South-east Asia to remain free” as long as Communist aggression persisted.

At the same time, the American United Nations delegate, Mr Adlai Stevenson, dissociated his Government from a recent statement by a Republican Presidential candidate, Senator Barry Goldwater, urging the use of A-bombs in the area.

Mr Stevenson told the Security Council that the United States policy for South-east Asia “is simply the restoration of peace. . . .”

Answering what he called an “obscure and generally offensive” statement by the Soviet delegate, Dr. Nikolai T. Fedorenko, who had raised the question of the Goldwater ■ speech. Mr Stevenson said the Russian evidently was “not very familiar with the political system that exists in this free country.”

Foreign policy was made and executed by the executive branch of the United States Government and not by Senator Goldwater or any other Senator, he said.

Earlier, Mr Stevenson announced United States affirmation that it would “welcome” the creation of United Nations machinery to guard against border violations on the South Vietnam-Cambodia border, adding: “They are prepared to establish it here and now.”

Dr. Fedorenko referred to the recent statement by Senator Goldwater that atomic weapons might be used on the frontier. “This cannibalistic appeal by the head of the socalled madmen has caused indignation and anger throughout the world, and legitimate concern at the fact that peace and security may be threatened still further,” Dr. Fedorenko said. “How are these cannibalistic appeals and slogans, these symptoms of atomic madness which are now manifest in the United States, consistent with the statements made in Washington about peaceful intentions, about support of international security and about concern for reducing tension, and so on . . .?"

from the representative of the United States, said Dr. Fedorenko. We wonder how we are to interpret this'silence?” he said.

“Is it a loss of the faculty, of speech, due to indignation and anger, or is it the silence of assent? . . .” He asked whether the “cannibalistic aspiration of Senator -Goldwater” reflected the policy of the United States Government. The council later adjourned debate until tomorrow.

The Security Council had heard n.o explanation on this