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5/15/54. Reel 1, Track 1, Page 1 MR. ACHESON: A very large part of our time so far in these discussions has been takenn up with a relatively snall part of the vorld and a relatively small part of the human race and our relations with them, but it is a very important part. We've been talking mostly about our problems in trying to establish stability and strength and a military position with our Furopean allies and in dealing with an armed attack which was made on us in the Far Tast, in Korea. all T In both of these cases we were dealing with a small part of the human race, a small part of the geographic area of the globe, and with a population which the ADMEN for the most part except in Korea was white. Vast part of the world which is colored and which is in Asia, the Middle Bast, and Africa, we haven't talked about. What we've been talking about are the peoples, and our relations with the peoples, who are called "advanced". The great mass of poor, backvard, Apr always(?) colored and, until recently, subject peoples have presented to us the most baffling questions, and the areas in which they live have produced the most affling strategic problems. I should think that sometine in the course of this discussion we can talk a bit about the strategic aspects of Gerrigh DE this part of the workd, perhaps in the light of that paper, Paul, that Garry [1] sent to me and which X have here. This whole area is the area of the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. I think it will come out that it has the most important strategic aspects for us; it has economic aspects which interests and are very important; and it has political/aspects. I think as this develops a little bit we will see that eside from the strategic and from some of the economic aspects of it, its "mein concern has been as a source of great trouble. I don't believe, thatfthe current view that there's a great competition between the communists and the west for this whole area is really the authentic and true picture of it. It is mostly that things are going on in that part of the of importance for world which and their importance from [7] the point of view of the diplomacy of the United States comes from the terrific potentialities