FOREIGN RELATIONS: I Want Allies

Back from a 41,000-mile tour through Japan, southeast Asia and Australia, Tom Dewey was talking with the urgent terseness of a man who has seen Communist armies at first hand. His trip had convinced him of the need for "stopping them at any cost at every point."

"The crisis battle of the next two to five years will be fought in the area of the Philippines, Indo-China and Indonesia, where 300 million persons live on the richest undeveloped land in the world," said Dewey. First trouble probably will come in Indo-China. If Indo-China is lost, India will be...

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