LETTER TO THE HONORABLE WALTER B. SMITH FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 22, 1954
• Content Type: LETTER

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HERALD TRIBUNE
April 20, 1954
This is for your ormation: the Indiar: Ambassador
telephoned Ina Monday afternoon, saying h : would like to come
and see me today. I told him that I would be glad to go to see him,
and I have just been there for tea.
The occasion for his call was ray article on Monday, called
"The Dulles Trip and Indo-China", and he was, of course, par-
ticularly interested in the suggestion at the end that the proposed
pact might become a meant of protecting the independence of the
indo- hinese states and that it was to be hoped that India would not
, door against against such a possibility. (Incidentally, Foster tele-
honed xne Monday evening,, saying that he liked the article as a
e and that it reflected what he had in mind).
When I saw the Ambassador today he asked me to tell him
what I was suggesting. I put it to him this way: that while the Indo-
Chinese states are entitled to independencee, they are and will be
incapable of exercising full independence for a considerable time to
come. They are, and he agreed, unready for self-government.
Therefore, idnepFendence as such must create a political vacuum
hich would promptly be filled by the communist dictatorship.
That being the situation, the problem is to create a political
tectorate of some sort within which the newly emancipated
Indo-Chinese states could learn to use their independence. Such
a protectorate, once the French withdraw, cannot be created by any
Western power alone, and therefore unless the independent nations of
Asia take the lead in creating that protectorate, Indo-China will either
communist orbit or become the battleground of a great-
agreed with this and then, proceeded to tell me that sub-
stantially the same idea was in the mind of his government and that
he expected a proposal of some sort to come from the forthcoming
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meeting at Colombo on April 28th, at which there will be present
the Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon and Indo -
nesia. This conference has been called by the Prime Minister of
Ceylon.
I assume from this that we shall see discussed at Geneva
three Asian pacts: one from the communists modeled on Molotov; a
pact for Europe, our own proposed pact, and a third Asian pact.
The new information i:ail this, as far as I am concerned,
was the probable action at Colombo.
Yours,
/ s J Walter Licpxnann
Mr. Allen I)
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Washington 25, D. C.
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