Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-26
stevenson Attacks
6. 0. P. Right Wing
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Stand on lndo-China

Stand on Indo-China
BY The AssoeIussd Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July Is.
- A6lai Stevenson, breaking q
five-day silence on the Indo-
China peace settlement signed in
Geneva last week, yesterday
charged that right wing Repub-
licans have successfully identi-
fied negotiation with appeace-
ment."
In his first and only major
speech on an Alaska vacation,
the unsuccessful Democratic
standard bearer in the 1852 pres
idential campaign said of the
Indo- China settlement:
"This Is the sorry sequel Of all
the foolish. boastful Republican
talk about liberation of the en-
shaved nations. about unleashing
Chang Kai-shek, seizing the in
itiative, o new look on foreign
policy, no more little wars as In
Korea. and. finally. that threat
ening talk by the Secretary OF
State and the Vice President
about massive atomic retaliation
which scared our allies half to
death. If not our enemies.
"All these. bold words and
ringing slogans Of the past two
years sound a little hollow now.
The new look collapsed at the
firSt test. The administration
was not prepared to fight. nor
could it negotiate, because the
right wing Republicans have
successfully identified negotia-
ton with .appeasement.
Sees Default by u. S.
Unable to fight. unable to
negotiate, unable to speak with
a coherent tongue, United States
foreign policy defaulted and
France salvaged what she could
out OF the endless, weary war
in Indo- China"
Not only did the Communists
add valuable and strategic area
to their domain, Mr.. Stevenson
said, but they threw the West
ern allies Unto confusion and
dissension, Russia's greatest goal
and dearest dream"
The former Governor Of iii.
nois said the Indo-C China settle
ment, which calls for the parti-
ton Of Wet Nam into Commu.
mist and pro-Western halves
ended the shooting but Commu-
mist China "has staked out an.
other menacing salient into free
Asia and enveloped Is million
people"
I'm Indo- China" Mr.. Steven.
son said, "the West suffered it.
worst disaster since the loss Of
China"
The blame, "the original sin,
for the misfortune" in Indo.
China rests with France. Mr.
Stevenson said.
Noting that England and Hol.
land, at the conclusion of Worlc
War II. granted independence tt
many Of their Asian possession.
and by so doing prevented Ma.
tionalist uprisings which thu
Communists would exploit, Mr.
Stevenson said:
Had France done likewise
and granted genuine independ-
ence in orderly, sincere stages tx
Wet Nam there very likely woulc
have been no war in Indo-
China"
But he said the blame for thu
collapse of our policy In Asia re.
mains our responsibility"
and" he warned, I'VE shall
fail again and again unless We
profit from this experience"
Cites Promises on Alaska.
Mr.. Stevenson's sharp crit.
cism of the Indo- China settle.
ment followed a statement ir
which he accused the Eisen.
hover administration of going
back on its campaign promises
of statehood for Alaska.
II know developments with re-
spect to Alaska have disappointed
you," he said. "And I know tina
McCarthyism as a symptom O.
Americas nervous mood and as {
startling revelation of a constitu
tional crisis, have been pro
foundry disturbing to many mor'
of us ;"