Lesueur
Now, Percy, it's been almost a year since you've been on this program. I'd like to ask you, do you feel that the alliance of the free nations is as strong as it was during the Korean War, or are the seams showing, just a little bit?
Spender
Well, I don't doubt, Mr. Lesueur, that in the last twelve months, that there has been a substantial shift in the balance of power throughout the world. Behind the United Nations this struggle for power goes on. Primarily because of the aggressive policy of Soviet Russia and communist China. and that change in the balance of power is primarily due to the successes the communists have had particularly in Indochina, and to their psychological successes, for example in preventing, well, by bringing about indirect the collapse of ABC and by the progress which they have made in atomic and hydrogen weapons. And in the result, of course, has been a change in the balance of power. I don't mean by that that they have achieved the balance of power, but there has been a change in it. And therefore it renders the problem which confronts the free world of greater urgency.