Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Harry Truman nor anybody else could give firm guarantees on South Korea, or any other area in Eastern Asia. The anti-Communist position was flimsier than the grass roof of a Korean house; the best that could be argued was that ECAid might keep off the Red rain until stronger protection was built...
According to the stipulations of the AVC grant, made in memory of the late Brigadier General Evans Carlson, the scholarship recipients must return to the Orient to work for the "regeneration of Asia...
...Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
...again as big as great Moscow itself, and the most modern city in China. The imperialists had built Shanghai, and when imperialism's day was done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism, the new imperialism, would have...
First Encounter. That the Russians wanted such a settlement was becoming increasingly clear. The Russians needed a period in which to work out a new, longer-range strategy for Western Europe, consolidate their far-from-secure position in Eastern Europe, and press their offensive in Asia, where communism faces gigantic opportunities whose exploitation, however, requires time and care...