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 TOP SECRET :principles of the United Nations Charter, and having the will and ability to maintain internal security, withstand communist influence, and prevent aggression.


 * . Elimination of the preponderant power and influence of the USSR in Asia or its reduction to such a degree that the Soviet Union will not be capable of threatening from that area the security of the United States or its friends, or the peace, national independence and stability of the Asiatic nations.


 * . Development of power relationships in Asia which will make it impossible for any nation or alliance to threaten the security of the United States from that area.


 * . Insofar as practicable, securing for the United States and the rest of the free world, and denying to the communist world, the availability through mutually advantageous arrangements, of the material resources of the Asian area.

6. In view of the threat to United States security interests resulting from communist aggression in Asia, it should be the policy of the United States to:


 * . Detach China as an effective ally of the USSR and support the development of an independent China which has renounced aggression.

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