The Rotary Balita no. 691 (February 28, 1952)

What If Indo-China Were Invaded? The official statement after the Churchill-Truman talks mentioned "the overriding need" of countering the communist threat in Asia. More specific was the declaration of Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden: "It should be understood that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia- even if they were called volunteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event, the United Nations should be equally solid to resist it." At the General Assembly meeting in Paris, representatives of Britain, France and the U.S.A. warned that any such intervention would call for "immediate and effective action" by the United Nations. Background of these remarks was the alleged concentration of 300,000 Chinese troops on the border of Indo-China-springboard for Japan's attack in 1941 and scene of France's recent struggle with communist forces-at a cost of many lives and more treasure than France has received in Marshall aid.