Show THE WHITE PAPER By DENNIS WHITE Once again the United States finds itself backed into a political corner of considerable This time it is in Next who can tell where it will The situation seems almost hopeless in the light of the last month's events in Southeast EARLY LAST month Kennedy issued a statement to the which in essence stated that the U.S. was ready to use force if the Soviets refused to negotiate an agreement on a neutral and independent One month later there is still no effective truce agreement and the Laos reb- r Is to ad- p to face John Foster Dennis White Dulles' paper tiger has proven loath to take an effective action beyond discussing the issue and our own Congressional leaders maintain that it is not worth any open action on our WHILE WE have been sitting on our hands hoping for a solution to the problem to drop from heaven like the rebels have gained effective control of more than half of the With morale low in both the Royal Laotian army and the civilian the situation seems rather to say the If has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained or held on the as soldier-diplomat General Water Bedell Smith then the U.S. has little hope for coming away from the 14 nation conference on the Laotian problem with anything more than another Korean type In effect all that the powers will be able to decide is to divide and partition yet another The United then almost no bargaining power at the coming The Soviets and the Chinese will surely attack the U.S. even more for our aid to Judging from their strong position the communists will be even more difficult to reach an agreement than ONE IS prone to ask whether this sort of is a national trait or At any rate all we can do is sit back while the powers that be make their decisions and hope that we can stumble through as well as we have done in the At least we can now say that we have a man almost in but will this really do any more than I take the public's mind off the many problems that face |