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There is no question about the availability in ‘the general area of Southeast Asia of sufficient mian. power to successfully defend IndoChina and neighboring states against Communism. The so-called perimeter area running from Korea and Japan down through the Philippines to Australia and New Zealand has a total population larger than that of £he United States and the situation has a total pbpulation larger than that of the United States and the situation is more crucial for them than for us because they would be the first to 'be overrun if the Communist advance continues. If those people do not care enough about their freedom to be willing to fight for it, we would merely bankrupt our nation financially and physically if we went in to make the fight for them.
In World War II we sent our soldiers into France and Germany and although the war ended in the Summer of 1945, they are still there and the President has said they will remain for an indefinite period. We sent other thousands of troops into South Korea to carry on a fight which might h^ve been avoided if We had previously trained the Koreans to do their own fightihg and many-of those Americans still are there and will be {kept there for an indefinite period. At the present time we have military establishments in forty-nixie nations.
If we should send our troops into Southeast Asia, it would be idle to speculate as to how long they would have to remain and it makes no sense to me to say that the only way to save the free* world from Communist agression is for us to send our boys into those steaming jungles where we el
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