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The Senate Debates Foreign Aid

mr. McCarthy… There is… always the strongest kind of presumption that two Communist nations will fight on the same side in the battle between Communism and freedom. This means that in order to responsibly pursue the hope that two Communist nations—such as Yugoslavia and Russia—will not end up side by side, we must have positive and cogent evidence that those two countries present an exception to the rule. I contend that every item of evidence available to us points directly the other way… In the area of action [Tito’s foreign policy] has consistently supported the Soviet Union on every point on which the Soviet Union and the free world are in disagreement… [Mr. Dulles has said] that we must not “drive the Yugoslavs into the Russian camp.”. What sense does it make to say that we must not drive Tito into the Russian camp when all the evidence tells us that Tito is already as far into the Russian camp as he can get?

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The Senate Debates Foreign Aid

mr. McCarthy… There is… always the strongest kind of presumption that two Communist nations will fight on the same side in the battle between Communism and freedom. This means that in order to responsibly pursue the hope that two Communist nations—such as Yugoslavia and Russia—will not end up side by side, we must have positive and cogent evidence that those two countries present an exception to the rule. I contend that every item of evidence available to us points directly the other way… In the area of action [Tito’s foreign policy] has consistently supported the Soviet Union on every point on which the Soviet Union and the free world are in disagreement… [Mr. Dulles has said] that we must not “drive the Yugoslavs into the Russian camp.”. What sense does it make to say that we must not drive Tito into the Russian camp when all the evidence tells us that Tito is already as far into the Russian camp as he can get?