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Draft Prepared by the Deputy Under Secretary of State (Rusk)
General Objectives
The United States supports the emergence of a community of independent Asiatic states in response to the nationalist aspirations of Asiatic peoples. We believe that the governments of Asiatic states [Page 1197] should be based as broadly as possible upon the consent of their people and should move at whatever pace is possible toward an increasing degree of constitutional processes reflected in individual liberties, representative government, free elections, and the due process of law. It is a fundamental aim of United States policy to establish friendly relations between the Asiatic states on the one hand and the United States and other members of the Western World on the other. It is in our interest to bring Asiatic states into active cooperation with the rest of the world in terms of the Charter of the United Nations and of other basic international charters. It is in the interest of the United States to assist, through appropriate means and within our capabilities, in bringing about an improvement in the economic condition of the peoples of Asia and in stimulating vigorous trade between Asia and the Western World.
In order to preserve conditions in which the above objectives can be obtained over a period of time, it is essential that the spread of Soviet Communism throughout Asia be halted as soon as practicable. The incompatability between the objectives of Communism and the objectives stated above is so fundamental and the security implications of the association between Communist Asia and Soviet Russia are so great that all forces in Asia which can be mobilized to resist Communism should be encouraged even though some elements do not meet the political standards which we would approve or expect in other areas.