They know that if these forces are getting help from Communist China. it is because the true friends of freedom in the West have forsaken them. They know. too. that if Communist China is selling equipment to the Viet Minh. the Viet Minh are being made to pay dearly in rice. coal. and minerals for every bit of aid they are getting. They know. also. because we have never attempted to hide it. that the United States has committed more than a billion dollars worth of equipment. and now seems ready to commit even more. to help Franceall of which from their point of view might well justify China in helping her southern Asiatic neighbor with traffic in arms and munitions. Suppose. for example. Mexico were conquered and held by an Asiatic power. Suppose the people of Mexico rose up and struck down their oppressor. Then suppose an even stronger Asiatic power intervened. to support the status quo. What would our position be? What would we do? Would not we feel obligated in the name of freedom to give our Mexican neighbor revolutionists all aid and comfort? And if the other Asiatic power embarked troops in Mexico. would not we also feel justified in sending our forces to drive them out? Whether every one of the 24 million people of Viet Nam is a Communist or whether not one of them is. is not the question. If all of them are Communists. what is to be accomplished by sending 10 American divisions there. to make them live as we want them to?