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3. Senator John F. Kennedy's statement as quoted in the Washington Daily News, September 22, 1960:
P "The recognition is not reall; the crux of :ur foreign policy. The real ques
tion is what should be done about the harsh facts that China is a powerful and
aggressive nation. The dangerous situation now existing can be remedied only by a strong and successful India, a strong and successful Japan, and some kind of regional group over Southeast Asia which gives these smaller countries the feeling that, in spite of their distaste for a military alliance, they will not be left to be picked off one by one at the whim of the Peiping regime."

4. Senator John F. Kennedy Interview as Reported in The Washington Post, October 22, 1960:
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Cronkite: ". . . What areas do you see where the United States might take
the offensive in a challenge to communism over the next 4 to 8 years?"
k Kennedy: ". . . the most vulnerable area, I have felt, has been eastern
Europe. I have been critical of the Administration's failure to suggest policies which would make it possible for us to establish, for example, closer relations
with Poland, particularly after the '55-'56 period and the Hungarian revolution. We indicated at that time that we were not going to intervene militarily. There was a period there when Poland demonstrated a national independence, and even the Polish Government moved some distance away from the Soviet Union.
". . . Secondly, the relations between Russia and China. They are now ent
gaged in a debate over whether war is the means of communizing the world, or whether they should use subversion and infiltration, economic struggles and all the rest. No one can say what that course of action will be, but I think the next President of the United States should watch it carefully. If those two years should split, it could have great effects throughout the entire world.
"Thirdly, I believe that India represents a great area for affirmative action by the Free World. India started from about the same place that China did.
The Chinese Communists have been moving ahead the last 10 years. India .
has been making some progress, but if India does not succeed with her 450 million people, if she can't make freedom work, then people around the world
are going to determine, particularly in the underdeveloped world, that the only way they can develop their resources is through the Communist system."
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5. Kennedy Presidential News Conference as Quoted in the New York Times, March 24, 1961. News Conference of March 23, 1961:

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fellow Americans, Laos i: far away from America, but the world is small. Its 2,000,000 people live in a country three times the size of Austria. The
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