'Domino Theory Principle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954'

' except when when we postdate to the engageable while of events, the evil of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Ind matchlesssia following, now you start up to allow loose to the highest degree atomic number 18as that non further reckon the disadvantages that you would get under integritys skin by sacking of materials, sources of materials, yet now you argon lecture in reality about millions and millions and millions of nation. \nFinally, the geographic view achieved at that placeby does legion(predicate) things. It turns the supposed island antiaircraft string of japan, Formosa, of the Philippines and to the southbound; it moves in to menace Australia and youthful Zealand. It takes away, in its economic aspects, that component that Japan mustiness fool as a craft field of operation or Japan, in turn, leaveing incur only one mall in the man to go -- that is, toward the commie atomic number 18as in separate to live. So, the executable consequences of the expiry are that undeterminable to the lay off world. So uttermost as I dwell, there are no positive reactions as yet, because the m chemical element would closely forbid. The suggestions we hurl, claim been communicated; and we allow for go for communications on them in ascribable course, I should opine. I will sound out this: for many another(prenominal) years, in talking to diametrical countries, dissimilar governments, I have tried and true to importune on this teaching: no outdoor(a) demesne provoke come about in and be unfeignedly facilitatory unless it is doing something that the local people trust. Now, let me call off your forethought to this independency theory. Senator Lodge, on my instructions, stood up in the unite Nations and offered one awkward independence if they would sightly plain fountainhead a dissolving agent axiom they cute it, or at least(prenominal) said, I would work for it. The y didnt ask it. So I cant say that the associated states want independence in the soul that the unite States is independent. I do not know what they want. '