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dated May 31, 1953: U.S. needs proper Asian policy

Chester Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India, advocated at a meeting of the India League of America in New York, a proper U.S. policy towards Asia, with eight points as its basis. He said, "1. The Asian view-point must be recognized. Mr. Nehru says what Asia thinks. We owe a debt to Mr. Nehru for making Asia's attitude clear, even when we disagree with him. Military power we can apply to Asia is sharply limited. The Korean war should have taught us by now that a stubbornly determined Asians cannot be defeated by push button methods. 2. The future of Asia will be determined not by Americans, but by Asians. 3. The most dynamic force in the Asian Revolution is the overwhelming desire for human dignity, insisting that coloured peoples of the world be accepted as equals of Whites of the West. 4. Asia's attitude to Communism from the West's. 5. Economic aid must be given particularly to India and Pakistan. Indians should be supported in their brave struggle to make the Five-Year Plan a success. An Indian lobby should be developed in the U.S. before it is too late. 6. A foreign policy which assumes Soviet-China ties are permanent, is bankrupt and potentially disastrous. 7. The U.N. must not be turned into a White Western country club. 8. Communism can be defeated only by countering its explosive dynamics by a better idea — the American idea — of individual rights and democracy."

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