Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judgments & Prophecies [Aug. 30], Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt recommends negotiating with the Communists. The Communists have already "negotiated" themselves into control of a large part of Europe and Asia . . . The means employed by them thus far ... are murder, imprisonment, theft (whole countries) and lying propaganda. How do you negotiate with such people? By appeasement, of course, the only way acceptable to them ... It were better that the whole world should be destroyed rather than that Communism should triumph...
...Asia that he talked about behind the closed doors of the conference rooms was-from the U.S. viewpoint-a new Asia. For the first time since the beginning of Red China's aggression the U.S. had sorted out and categorized its Asian responsibilities...
Important Tie. In Manila Dulles and the representatives of seven other nations -Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan-had hammered out and signed a Southeast Asia defense pact. In it the U.S. agreed that an armed attack-or an attempt at internal subversion-against any of the territory covered by the pact (see FOREIGN NEWS) would be considered a threat to the "peace and safety" of the eight signatories. In the event of such an attack, each of the eight nations would be obliged "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
Beset in advance by their own doubts, and surrounded by the indifference or hostility of other nations looking on, eight nations* signed a mutual defense treaty for Southeast Asia last week-and somewhat to their own surprise found themselves quite impressed by what they had done...
...aytoe" or "saytoe") had been discarded from the first day of the conference, the feeling being that the word was too reminiscent of NATO-and this was no NATO. It envisions no common commander, or even, at this point, a secretariat. Official name of the pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay took up the phrase in a speech, this seemed to be the winning label...