Haynes
Do you think that Japan is an important island to retain in control of the West?
Struble
It's my opinion that the communist action against Korea is primarily directed against japan. I feel that the long range objective of the communists is Japan, and that Korea is simply an intermediary step, one that for the moment he will get something out of. He will do two things right away if he takes over Korea, he will destroy to some extent the free world's collective security. At the same time there will be another area of the Far East into which we will be precluded from going. It then becomes--Korea then becomes, a pincer against--one pincer against Japan.