Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disaster in Indo-China left no doubt that three Communists were the Men of the Year in Asia. The victory belonged to Communist China's Premier Mao Tse-tung, his Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh. For a considerable measure of recovery from the Indo-China disaster, the free world could thank John Foster Dulles. First Dulles hammered out and pushed through the Manila Pact, which committed eight nations to take joint action against subversion and aggression in Asia...
Despite these attempts to shore up the anti-Communist position, the free world came to year's end with a net loss and a troubled outlook in Asia. There was scant hope that the Communists could be prevented from swallowing up all of Viet Nam. There was great danger in the aura of success that surrounded the Communists in the Far East, where the people want to know: Which side will win? Even in Japan, where the West's good friend, Premier Yoshida, was forced to resign, there was new talk of trade and friendship with Red China...
...jolting news, the Democrats agreed to go along in principle with Ike's manpower proposals. In his turn, Harold Stassen dragged out a set of charts to disprove the idea in some Senators' minds that his program approached the order of magnitude of a "Marshall Plan for Asia." The Senators appeared to be much relieved...
Caught between loyalty to a European ally and fear of being accused of favoring "colonialism" in Asia, the U.S. abstained from voting, winning favor with neither side and letting down the Dutch, whose case the U.S. privately conceded to be right...
...commercial reactors were built over the years, all Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...