Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West by the Communists to get a deal. If the Reds swallowed only part of Viet Nam now, they could afford to wait for the rest. By the swapping of a few parallels, and the concession of a few months, they gained immeasurable prestige for their unexpected "generosity." In Asia the balance of power was swinging to the Reds; in Europe the Communist dove of peace flew high. Inevitably, the settlement was compared with the "peace" at Munich in 1938. This peace was different; it was a surrender after defeat in battle. But in a sense, it was worse...
Before the seals had hardened on the Indo-Chinese surrender last week, the U.S. and Britain were at work trying to erect a new levee against the Red flood in Asia. Said President Eisenhower: "The United States is actively pursuing discussions with other free nations with a view to the rapid organization of a collective defense in Southeast Asia in order to prevent further direct or indirect Communist aggression in that general area...
While U.S. military men talked about plans for a new main line of defense in Thailand, U.S. diplomats were conferring in a dozen capitals on the terms of the long-contemplated Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Britain, meanwhile, began consultations with the Colombo powers (India, Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan and Ceylon) in the dubious hope of inducing them to join the SEATO conferees...
...Attlee had other complaints. He wanted an immediate meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think it was a mistake...
...Walter Crosby Eells, onetime adviser on higher education to SCAP in Tokyo, heard the story, he was neither shocked nor surprised. He was near the end of a two-year swing through the school and college campuses of 39 nations of Asia, Africa and the Near East, was already convinced by scores of similar stories that the campuses of the world have become major targets of Communist policy. Last week he published his ominous findings in a special report-Communism in Education in Asia, Africa and the Far Pacific (American Council on Education...