Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower's creative leadership, though it sometimes had a hard time asserting itself through the ranks of "The Team," has disappeared almost totally after the President's heart attack. Since September, the Soviets have smiled their way through Asia and have courted, in a dangerously successful manner, neutrals from Yugoslavia to Cambodia. Imaginative responses from Washington to new Soviet techniques have been nil. In fact, the Middle Eastern muddle is just the latest and best instance of a policy that evidently evolved while the policy-makers were losing drinks at shuffleboard in the Bahamas. Even Senator George, that most agreeable...
...rather than outright grants, "devoted mainly to the creation of basic economic facilities such astransportation and development of water resources." Such economic help, along with technical assistance, said the report, "is now one of the main channels through which the West can keep in contact with the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America...
Accepted Colossus. On the most essential point at issue between Truman and himself, MacArthur had a stronger case-and some sharp observations about the results of Truman's policy in Asia. He notes bitterly that he was the first American commander in history ever denied the right to fight to win. Because the U.S. failed to drive the Communists out of Korea, "Red China promptly was accepted as the military colossus of the East. Korea was left ravished and divided. Indo-China was partitioned by the sword. Tibet was taken almost on demand. Other Asian nations began to tremble...
Similar questions have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...
While the Williams meeting was in progress, the World Council of Churches met in Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations...