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something
agencies such as the Food and Apricultural Organization,
the orld Health Organization or the Economic Commission
for Aid in the Far East, which I believe is now located
in Banglook. I am wondering if you located an American
headquarters in Bangkok, the psychological effect would
not be, here the Americans are, moving in. It is the
Americans in place of the United Nations, and so I raise
the question that maybe we haven't more to gain from the
standpoint of American interests in setting up as against
a Marxist internationalism the United Nations type of more
voluntary internationalisn and doing everything we can to
boost that.
MR. STASSEN: I would say that clearly there should
be consultation with the United Nations agencies and the
utilization of them at every possible turn but I can not
conceive that you could turn over the substance of American
aid to be docided by United Nations agencies in Asia for
a number of reasons. One is the aspect of the colonial
powers being in there. The other is the amount of aid we
give would foll so far short of what could well be used
that I do not feel you could have the division of alloca-
tion that would parallel the European the OEEC in Europe.
So that I think we would need to keep a greater area of
detailed control of the funds and of the goods in Asia
than we do in Europe. I do grant and would urge that the
United Nations agencies should be used to every degree
possible.
MR . LURPHY: I would like to support the last remarks
of Mr. Kizer with respect to the hysteria or hystericel
tendency of fear of Russia and the effect it has on our
policy. Governor Stassen referred in his original remarks
to the Soviet under-belly of Russia. There is no doubt
about it, Russia is unorotected for a great many thousands
of miles in the Asiatic mainland but the theory that be-
cause she is unprotected she has unlimited or strong
cababilities there is somewhat hypothetical, I think.
After the war that Russia went through and after
the devastation the country Was subjected to, I doubt
that she has quite the capabilities, aside from the atom
bomb, that are attributed to her. I would like to
make
the point that possibly sometimes we rather hysterically
exaggerate her capabilities and in our reactions to them
distort our own true policies.
I would like to make one further remark. It is my
understanding that the expression "Titoism" refers not to
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