Asian Crisis: Stevenson Outlines US Policy To UN
Asian Crisis: Stevenson Outlines US Policy To UN
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, suddenly summoned back from London, explains the policy of the United States in Southeast Asia, before members of the United Nations. The U.S. will fight communist aggression in Southeast Asia as long as the people there need help to preserve their independence. US Security Counsel sitting a horse shoe table with and oblong table in the center. CUS Adlai Stevenson sitting at the table with an ear piece in his ear, writing. Adlai Stevenson, "As long as the peoples of that area are determined to preserve their own independence and ask for our help in preserving it, we will extend it. And this of course is the meaning of President Johnson requests a few days ago for additional funds for a more economic, as well as military assistance for Vietnam. And if any one has the illusion, Mr. Chairman, that my people will abandon the people of Vietnam or that we shall weary about the burden of support that we are rendering these people, it will be only due to ignorance of the strength and the conviction of the American people. ... Stop the secret subversion of other peoples independence. Stop the clandestine and illegal transit of national frontiers. Stop the export of revolution and the doctrine of violence. Stop the violations of political agreements reached at Geneva for the future of Southeast Asia. The people Laos want to be left alone, the people of Vietnam want to be left alone. The people of Cambodia want to be left alone. When their neighbors decide to leave them alone as they must there will be no fighting in Southeast Asia, no need for American advisors to leave their homes to help these people resist aggression."