16 February 1950

US envoys converge to discuss ‘red threat’ in Asia

More than 20 United States envoys from across Asia descended on the Thai capital for a four-day meeting at the United States Embassy on Wireless Road, which US Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup hailed as ‘completely successful’.

Jessup told reporters that he was confident Thailand could resist communist threats from its neighbours but that the US was studying the possibility of sending military aid to Thailand, India and Indonesia as part of stepped up plans to combat communism in the ‘China area’.

The Soviet Union denounced the meetings as ‘designed to unite all reactionary and puppet regimes in Southeast Asia and the Far East against the national liberation movements of peoples of these countries’. China reacted by issuing a three-point plan to liberate Asian nations through the use of force, if necessary, and threatening to close all of its consulates in Thailand.

16 February 1950

US envoys converge to discuss ‘red threat’ in Asia

More than 20 United States envoys from across Asia descended on the Thai capital for a four-day meeting at the United States Embassy on Wireless Road, which US Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup hailed as ‘completely successful’.

Jessup told reporters that he was confident Thailand could resist communist threats from its neighbours but that the US was studying the possibility of sending military aid to Thailand, India and Indonesia as part of stepped up plans to combat communism in the ‘China area’.

The Soviet Union denounced the meetings as ‘designed to unite all reactionary and puppet regimes in Southeast Asia and the Far East against the national liberation movements of peoples of these countries’. China reacted by issuing a three-point plan to liberate Asian nations through the use of force, if necessary, and threatening to close all of its consulates in Thailand.