FOREIGN RELATIONS: How Close?

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a St. Louis speech last September, served notice on the Chinese Communists. Said he: "There is the risk that, as in Korea, Red China might send its own army into Indo-China . . . Such a second aggression could not occur without grave consequences which might not be confined to Indo-China." This week Dulles told the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the extent to which the Chinese have ignored his warning. The situation: "Rather ominous."

The Communists besieging Dienbienphu, said Dulles, are using new radar-controlled antiaircraft guns that are "operated by members of...

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