Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bravo for the straight-from-the shoulder, comprehensive article on MacArthur and America's debt to Asia...
Said Acheson: "While it is true that there are serious dangers to world peace existing in the situation in Asia, it is also true, as Prime Minister Nehru of India stated to the press the other day, that a Pacific defense pact could not take shape until present internal conflicts in Asia were resolved." Secretary Acheson added crisply: "Nehru's view appears to be an objective appraisal of the actual practical possibilities at the present time...
...dramatic victory of the Western Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...
...director of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre Mer and professor at the College de France, Mus is a well-known specialist in Sanskrit and Annamite and has spent many years in Southeast Asia and the East Indies...
...side of the natives-whatever that is. Thus, better than any of the others, it makes plain what kind of blinkers Robert Shaplen's characters seem to wear. They are quite upset about what the Western impact may have done or failed to do to Asia but their reactions are impractical and confused and in some cases defy analysis. If Asia itself has anything to worry about after the Western rascals and mixed-up men of good will are kicked out, his heroes haven't figured...