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of
RECORDS
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SERVICE'
strategy. In India, for example, obviously Nehru is one
of the strongest persons in the Thole of Asia, from our
point of view and for the future of the type of Asia that
we are interested in, the type of world we are interested
in. In order to get over his internal difficulties -
his internal economic difficulties -- he stands in serious
need of economic help. But the way we could destroy Nehru
most rapidly would be to make him appear to some of his
own people to be an American puppet. It seems to me in
the question of giving economic aid to this part of the
world, we must very carefully consider whethor we are
putting up political strings at the same time; whether we
are saying to these people so long as you do not recognize
Chinese Communism, so long as you take a strong anti-
Communist stand, we will help you, but you must do that in
order to qualify for our aid. If, on the other hand, we
could say to them we believe that a generation hence the
world will be better if the peoples of South Asia have
more to eat, better places to live, and we are prepared
to support that, then I think there is a chance for that
sort of local cooperation in consonance with national in-
tegrity and national pride and we stand the prospect of
making some progress and having a successful policy in
that area.
MR. STASSEN: I agree that you should not require that
they have an affirmative anti-Communist program politi-
cally as a prercquisite for economic aid; you should simply
require that they be non-Communist dominated and on that
basis move on your economic aid.
MR. TALBOT: I wonder whether you would feel that the
solution of the colonial problem in the area would be a
prerequisite to effective influence of the American point
of view in that area.
MR. STASSEN: To answer that I would say that it is
very important, but I don't say that it is a prerequisite.
In other words, I feel that the whole of Asia is such a
vast problem that you can't say anything is a prerequisite
to the program. Just as in the matter of studying just
how you do these economic things, granted they need con-
tinuing study, but if we wait until we conclude our
studies until we act, we will all be dead before there is
any action. Nobody could have painted out in detail the
Marshall Plan when Secretary larshall made that great pre-
sentation at Harvard.
MR. VINACKE:
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