Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Administrative Secretary for China and Southeast Asia...
...Europe the pacts to rearm West Germany as part of the West's defense against Communism were at last in effect. Reacting almost desperately to that fact, the Soviet Union was anxiously seeking a settlement in Austria. In Asia, at Bandung, the prime minister of Asian Communism, China's Chou Enlai, had encountered angry and unexpected opposition from fellow Asians. As a result, he had been forced to revise his tactics...
...allies. The Reds still had the initiative in the Formosa Strait-it was they who could start a war or grab territory-but the U.S. was parrying their diplomatic thrusts. For the moment, the anti-Communist feeling shown at Bandung was the big, new fact in Asia. And the recent European success of the anti-Communist forces far outbalanced all Red Asian gains...
...midst of a ceremony. He was taken aboard a warship, but escaped when a bomb hit the ship. Phibun swam safely back to shore and power.) In recent years Phibun, the World War II collaborationist, has proved to be one of the best friends of the West, Southeast Asia's most militant anti-Communist (Pridi, on the other hand, has turned on his wartime friends, now mouths the Communist line and leads a band of guerrillas in Red China...
They testify to his bloody military triumphs, his glorification of Rome and desecration of alien gods, his famous cuisine. But he gets little sympathy from the jury until one witness tells how the general brought a cherry tree from Asia and planted it in the Apennines; then the jury retires to consider his case, and it looks like limbo for Lucullus...