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V. NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA
Soviet Designs.--Assistant Secretary McGhee pointed
out to the Annual Press Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., on
January 19 that the effects of World War II included the
emergence of Soviet imperialism under the guise of Com-
munism, with the goal of conquering the Near East and
South Asia, an objective clearly expressed in the draft
agreements between Stalin and Hitler in 1940. The Soviet
Union "must have thought the situation peculiarly favora-
ble for her designs in 1945 * and "set in motion a series
of intrigues and attacks calculated to destroy Greece,
penetrate Turkey, and paralyze Iran, " Mr. McGhee said, but
the US "recognized the danger and accepted the challenge"
and "in a series of unprecedented actions" through the UN
and through direct aid to Greece and Turkey and later to
Iran" assisted the peoples of the Near East in resisting
aggression. 20
India: Ambassador Henderson Discusses Polarization.--
In an address Nefore the Foreign Relations Society at New
Delhi on December 23 (published in January), Loy W. Hender-
son, US Ambassador to India, described as a "fallacy" and
a
"fancied divergency" between US and Indian policies the
notion that the world is divided into two great power bloes
engaged in a cold war, with the US a prominent member in
TREEAR
one bloc, both combatants concentrating on preparations for
actual warfare, Mr. Henderson said that the US does not
ARCHIVES AND "NATIONAL RECOROS
adhere to a "power bloc" but looks toward other UN members
SERVICE'*
of good will for cooperation in discouraging aggression.
Americans 'would never permit their Government to make im-
moral international decisions merely in order to strength-
en their Government's position in a cold war", and few Am-
ericans would accept the thesis that the US is "more inter-
ested in preparing for war than in relieving the distress.
of suffering peoples throughout the world," he declared.
21
VI. FAR EAST
Formosa: President and Secretary of State Clarify US
Policy.-President Truman stated to the press on January
5 that, in accord with traditional US policy calling for
international respect for the territorial integrity of Chi-
na, and in keeping with the Cairo and Potsdam declarations
and the Japanese surrender terms with regard to the restora-
tion of Formosa to China, the United States "will not pur-
sue a course which vill lead to involvement in the civil con-
flict in China" and "will not provide military aid or advi ce
20
Press release 53, Jan. 19; excerpted version, Bulletin,
Jan. 30, p. 170.
21.
Bulletin, Jan. 9, p. 43.
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