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5/16/54 Reel 7 - Track 2 - Page 1 MR. JESSUP: you really could develop that theme, for instance in Indochina; you (con't.) have a rallying point of the enemy in terms of the Chinese, which is is an historical eneryy in terms of Vietmanese thinking, instead of having it directed toward the French. Now in Europe we've made groat progress, it seems to me, in terms of developing the anti- Soviet. We haven't made parallel strides in the East in developing the opposité number of the Soviet Union in the Asiatic situation. MR. ACHESON: It seems to me that Foster has gotten himself into a dilemm here which has a very grave bearing on the whole question of time. I doubt whether nou he is going to improve any chances of solidarity by unilateral American action. There might well have been a time when what Averell says would have been true. We could have taken a lead and others would have followed. Dut now he has got it so that our taking a lead is an affront. to others. The British don't want to do it; the French don't-- they are now asking us, but they weren't a short time ago--I should think it would make grave problems for those countrics. Now if you My is a if take the time to build up what he calls the United Front, don't you run us the grave'Tisk thnt you have lost a large part of the visible United Front? And I don't see quite hou you solve that dilemm. What do you think about it, Herbert? another MR. FEIS: Certainly nothing in contradiction to what you say I have nathing. It seems to emphasize the fact that to act alone now might thRow ours per: wet? led opposition rather than led collaboration. I am convinced that Congress just would not authorize its So I think there is an immediate mtter there would be nothing. to bo done except some very definite proposal to the British and French, vory forcibly, urgently presented- part in that all influence concentrated on trying to secure their And then, 11 you manage that, you can go on from there in turning in a number of