Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last fortnight, Dulles analyzed the situation for the NATO foreign ministers' council. Said he: "At the present time, the U.S. is being subjected to the most severe kind of provocation in Asia. This appears to be deliberately planned in the hope of provoking the U.S. into actions which our European friends and allies would regard as ill-advised and which would perhaps shake our unity at a time when we hope it will be reinforced by the pending London-Paris accords. The U.S. does not intend thus to be hastily provoked into needless action." This highly practical talk...
...airplane becomes a mobile State Department. He takes with him more aides than made up the entire State Department personnel in John Quincy Adams' day.* On trips to Europe, the staff is headed by Assistant Secretary (for European Affairs) Livingston T. Merchant and Counselor Douglas MacArthur II. When Asia is the landing place, the Secretary's chief aide is Assistant Secretary (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson...
...standards and security requirements . . ." Ladejinsky, 55, a short, intense, scholarly man who puffs a curved pipe, said quietly: "I came to America when I was 22, with no money, no friends and not knowing the language. I developed to the point where I could represent the United States in Asia, and one of my most effective anti-Communist arguments with Asians has been that my success in the U.S. is a very natural thing to happen in our country. What will I tell them now?" Superior Service. The son of a prosperous rural miller, Wolf Ladejinsky fled his native Ukraine...
...storm. From Tokyo U.S. Ambassador John Allison cabled a protest. Author James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific, Sayonara) wrote in a letter to the New York Times: "It is precisely as if Richard Nixon and Adlai Stevenson were to be charged with subversion. Mr. Ladejinsky is known throughout Asia as Communism's most implacable foe and about the only American who has accomplished much in actually stopping the drift of all Asian farmers to Communism. To fire him for security reasons is truly incredible...
...their mustard-colored uniforms and jaunty green berets, the Binh Xuyen of Saigon are probably the most exotic mob of hoodlums in Asia. Four thousand strong, they are the shock troops of the Saigon police, an empire of their own within the South Viet Nam state...