Speech #820180172

Day by day they are fastening their hold on the people of China under their satellite leader Mao Tsetung. I think we have nothing to fear if we go to people who desire to be free and point out to them from the record of history that the most ruthless and imperialistic power anywhere in the world today is the Soviet Union and that in their slave labor camps. scattered throughout all sections of the Soviet Union. there are more than 300.000 Japanese prisoners of war who have never been returned to their homeland. as there are thousands of German prisoners of war who have been worked in the salt mines and slave labor camps of Siberia and Russia. as well as countless citizens of Poland and other countries who are unaccounted for or who are working in slave labor camps for the Russians. I say with all humility that we should be glad to welcome Asiatics to the cause of preserving human freedom in the world. and we should point out to them that if human freedom goes down in America and in the Western World human freedom will be carried down in Asia as well. On the basis of that policy I believe we will have a great many steady allies. not only in Japan and not only in the Republic of China now on Formosa. but in the Philippines. southeast Asia. in Pakistan. and. some day I hope. in India as well. Mr.