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CONF IDENTIAIS -64- ARCHIVES **NATIONAL SERVICE RECORDS aid to Tito but to a national desire to prevent the dom- ination by a foreign power and in that respect I would say that the Chinese have very, very strong capabilities of Titoism because I think they are very nationalistic and very much nurture their independence. With respect to Bangkok and the Government there, I would say that the present head of the Government had not only a bad record against the Japanese during the war but has had a bad record against his own people or against a substantial segment of his own people in the last years and that there is a very excellent chance of an upset on the part of the Free Thai group which might come at any time. It is not a stable situation in my opinion. MR. ARTHUR COONS: I wanted to make the remark both to Mr. Stassen and to the group, with reference to this question of whether or not any aid should go to a Communist dominated government, that it seemed to me that in the in- ception of the Marshall Plan in Europe Secretary Marshall and the State Department and Government placed our country on a high level of statesmanship in making that aid, at least at the beginning, potentially available to any country of Europe, whether Communist dominated or not, which might join with the organization of European states and which might agree to certain standards, with reference to the distribution of that aid, that we might write down. Furthermore, it seems to me that with reference to the Far East, particularly where there is a very sensitive Nationalism, as we have all remarked, we might be on very much stronger ground if we should not distribute our aid until after we should have had a conference of the states and should have had an inclusive invitation to all states in the same manner we did to Europe. I think that would have an appeal to the American public opinion. It may be that certain states might themselves volun- tarily withdraw and this in itself may indicate the fact that they were Soviet dominated. I wonder if we are safe in assuming every Communist dominated government is absolutely a tool of Moscow. We all say that commonly in our speech but a fundamental element of American policy must be to resist international Communism and resist the imperial encroachment of the Soviet Union. I should not wish to make the mistake of assuming that every Communist labelled Nationalist movement in the Far East were necessarily so and even if there were a lot of voices that seemed to sound like Moscow voices. I

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