come to the possible sequence of events, the loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following, now you begin to talk about areas that not only multiply the disadvantages that you would suffer through loss of materials, sources of materials, but now you are talking really about millions and millions and millions of people . . . It turns the so-called island defensive chain of Japan, Formosa, of the Philippines and to the southward; it moves in to threaten Australia and New Zealand." Eisenhower, as he often did, also referred to Japan and that the spread of communism û the falling domino û "takes away, in its economic aspects, that region that Japan must have as a trading area or Japan, in turn, will have only one place in the world to go û that is, toward the Communist areas in order to live. So," Eisenhower summed up, "the possible consequences of the loss are just incalculable to the free world" (Williams, et al: 156-157). Eisenhower's falling domino theory not only represents the significant Cold War rhetoric of the
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