TOF SECRET Whether in fact the Generalissimo will ever be abe to reNevertheles., if turn to the mainland was certainly a question. there was even one chance in ten of his successfully doin. .is, the United States should be in a pos tion to taxe adventase cf ne oppcrtunity. At the conclusion of Mr. Rishards' comments, Secretary Dulles spoke again. He first stated tnat Secretary Herter hed asned him to report to the Council that he was fully in eccord witk tie view that we should not change the missions of the GRC armed forces on Taiwan. Secretary Dulles rontinued that it was his own view that it would be a major disaster to our whole position in the Fer sast if we did change these missions. Secretary Dulles said it wes not fer him to state that we must agree to maintain porte ’s GRC forse levels, but certainly we should not change the missions of the GRC irmed forces. Particularly, we shovlc not change these missions 2% 7ut+ ting out reference to the possi! lity of a Nationalist retuim to mainland China. It was inieed c this hope of & return *> mein land Chine that sustains moreje on Teiwan, even if che neq. was remote. Secretary Dulles then ponte l out that the _enercal s.ituction from the U. S. point of vie .s quite different in Asi3i than in Europe. The Western European countries ere mach more solic in deyth and strength, both militarily and otherwise. [In Asie, on tne other hand, only a series of small isiand and peninsula positions separate the United States from Communist positions in depth cn the tontinent of Asia. The reason these smal. island and peninsula countries main- tain their will to freedom is be:ause 2f their hope that Ccmrenis* The President said tha t this was beginnin, tle academic to him. Were we t. Lint about reducing levels on Taiwan? TOP SECRET | | | REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT, D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY oO Chira will one day tlow up. Nov wus this to be tnousht altoceth a forlorn hope, as Hu Shitnad recently pointed out in nis aidress before the United Nations. Wnat hed happened in dungary ani Foland could conceivably happen in Commun .st Jhina. If 2 blow-up cvscurred, Chinese Nationalist troops might f.nd the great opportum:'; with they had been seeking. While we c.n all have our own views 2s to the likelihood that such tings will come to pass, the fa7zt remained that the Chinese Nationalists believe that this chance may pe offered, and it is precisely this belier that sustains shem in thei: resistances to Cammunism. If, by changing cur policies, we destroy that Chinese Nationalist hope, we will at the same time destroy she. capacity of the Chinese Nationalists for the defense of Taiwan itself. ‘%onond this, such a change in our policy wouli mean the abandoniny o~ -. ro wnol+ Far Eastern position.

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