Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intensity almost from day to day. There are heartening signs from Washington, however, that the long period of vacillation in American policy toward Asian problems may be nearing its end. The "agonizing re-appraisal" of united states policy toward Europe which Secretary Dulles once threatened has been transferred to Asia instead...
Perhaps most significant of all, the Administration has realized that bullets alone are not sufficient to win the struggle for Asia. The President apparently intends to propose a large-scale program of economic assistance to non-Communist Asian countries, although the plan may have to over-come the formidable resistance of the budget-minded treasury department. The appointment of Nelson Rockefeller, a foreign economic affairs expert, to the state Department is another encouraging indication that the Administration has finally recognized the importance of the economic battle against Communism...
Along with this moderate approach to touchy affairs with China, there are indications of an even more important change in American foreign policy. While several months ago the President attached great weight to the formation of a Southeast Asia collective security past, the present recommendation of the National Security Council scents to be an increased program of economic aid. Liberation of China has become a realistic effort to help "liberate" free Asia from economic serfdom...
...expanded program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid...
Economic aid is certainly no cure-all. Although it should keep Asians from "going Communist," it certainly will not change their independent foreign policies. The revolution taking place in Asia is not only for rice: it is, even more basically, for respect. The President now seems willing to give Asia both rice and respect--a formula that should keep free Asia free...