Only for such a cause as their own freedom will people make the heroic effort necessary to win this kind of struggle. This is an analysis which is shared. if in some instances grudgingly. by most American observers. Moreover. without political independence for the associated states. the other Asiatic nations have made it clear that they regard this as a war of colonialism. and the "united action" which is said to be so desperately needed for victory in that area is likely to end up as unilateral action by our own country. Such intervention. without participation by the armed forces of the other nations of Asia. without the support of the great masses of the peoples of the associated states. with increasing reluctance and discouragement on the part of the Frenchand. I might add. with hordes of Chinese Communist troops poised just across the border in anticipation of our unilateral entry into their kind of battlegroundsuch intervention.