Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...island held by the Nationalist Chinese-Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese-and the U.S. had every right to send Medendorp there as part of a military mission advising and aiding Chiang in what he sees clearly-and the U.S. sees unclearly-as a struggle for Asia and for the world...
...forward policy in the Far East. Was Medendorp simply waiting for an enemy attack? Is that what Chiang Kai-shek is supposed to be doing? Or are U.S. servicemen and U.S. allies waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind about what it will do in Asia...
SOUTHEAST ASIA NEEDS A STRONG MILITARY ALLIANCE
...military alliance. The United Kingdom and France, with tacit if reluctant U.S. consent, prefer a loose treaty of mutual defense subject to the constitutional processes of each participating state. The U.S. is caught between the two contradictory positions held on the one hand by its best friends in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, and on the other by two of its outstanding allies in Europe...
...Philippines and the U.S., then it might have been better to have attempted no further diplomatic moves. To indulge in too much sound and fury which signifies nothing to the Communists would only be to arouse their mockery and contempt. We need to do three things in Southeast Asia...