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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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