Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian blockade, costing the Russians dear in prestige and popularity. It had transported 1,540,969 tons in 310 days, steadily upped its totals in spite of the German winter. Meanwhile the West's counter-blockade had pinched Eastern Germany badly. With the Communists' gigantic triumphs in Asia, they could afford a strategic retreat in Europe without disastrous loss of face...
...blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...
...political paradox for which the British have a peculiar fondness and talent. It satisfied everybody, including old Imperialist Winston Churchill, who ringingly spoke of "new harmonies." The only disappointed party was the Communists, who knew that an India out of the Commonwealth's charmed circle might fall to Asia's rising Red tide. Sputtered London's Daily Worker: "Unprincipled agreement . . . British imperialism has always proved adaptable in finding a formula which can suit its aims...
...Open Door was closing fast in China. Once the Reds had slammed it shut, the dust of history would settle on half a century of Western endeavor and propagation of Western ideals on Asia's mainland. Watching the relentless march of the Communists below the Yangtze and south across prostrate China, the U.S. wondered: What next in Asia...
Most Americans still do not realize the scope of MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home; while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...