Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence ... to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity." The U.S., therefore, needed to maintain and strengthen its collective security pacts with free countries, its own "long-haul" program of military preparedness. The U.S. needed to press its quest for regional objectives: in Asia, "help to nations struggling to maintain their freedom"; in Europe, "a greater measure of integration"; in the Middle East, "a fair solution of the tragic dispute between the Arab states and Israel, all of whom we want as our friends...
...staffed and over-crowed schools are all dramatic indications that the state of the Union may not be as healthy as the President says. And it is hard to deny that the U.S. is facing a crisis in foreign affairs as the Soviets begin to smile their way into Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Even in the field of national defense, which should be the President's forte, recent criticisms have shown that not only may the U.S. have dangerously weakened its ground forces, but also that it may have fallen behind the Soviets in nuclear weapons...
...that Europe continues as a fractured continent, no part of which is able to sustain industrial mass production or even to defend itself? Does it make sense that Arabs and Israelis continue to defy the law by prolonging a quarrel that neither can win? Does it make sense that Asia, wishing only for national freedom and economic progress, is allowed to drift toward slavery and reaction...
...Definite Shift." The revival of belligerency apparently sprang from the Soviet leaders' assessment of their strength in south Asia, from which they had just returned. They came home arrogant with success. Said Bulganin: "The peoples of Asia have begun waking up and straightening their shoulders. The factors which contributed to this great awakening have been the great October [1917] Revolution in this country and the weakening of the colonial powers as a result of the first, and particularly the second, World War . . . The time would come, Lenin used to say, when hundreds of millions of people in Asia would...
...fact that the Japanese intended to invade Southeast Asia rather than hit the Russians in Siberia. Result: the Russians were able to unleash their Far East army when the Germans had virtually captured Moscow...