Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to find; they include precarious local crises that stretch from the trigger-happy situation between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East to France's evident inability to deal with her problems in North Africa and at home, from the increasing economic penetration by Communist China in Asia to Britain's recurring economic crisis (TIME, Feb. 27). But overriding and surrounding and worsening all of these local problems is the massive "new look" of Communist policy elaborately displayed in Moscow...
THERE is more apprehension in the capital today about the conduct of foreign policy than at any time since the Korean war. This apprehension has been caused primarily by the Communist political and economic offensive in the Middle East and South Asia, and by the fear, which has been growing steadily here in the last few months, that the Administration has miscalculated Communist strategy and has no effective policy to meet...
...recent weeks shows all is far from well in the Western world, that there is no dynamic leadership, that the West has lost the initiative to the Kremlin. There is a serious threat of war in the Middle East that could become another Korea; substantial Soviet gains in South Asia while America's relations with that area decline daily; loss of Cambodia in Southeast Asia to neutralism; serious setbacks to pro-Western Chancellor Adenauer in West Germany; alarming support in Greece for a Communist-backed political coalition; revolutions in our own backyard, in Brazil and Peru...
Charging that Chiang Kai Shek is "incompetant" and "unimaginable" and that the current policy was partially brought about by "China Lobby," Fairbank stated that the United States no longer has predominance in Asia. We must rethink Chinese relations, he stated...
Other considerations in our policy, Westerfield added, are retaining the loyalty of Chinese outside China, not appearing to be backing down to the rest of Asia, and not violating our treaty with Chiang and our other Far Eastern Allies...