Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertained no illusions that the U.S. would automatically enter the Indo-Chinese war if the Geneva talks broke down. On the other hand, Mendes assured Dulles, France would not withdraw from IndoChina if the war continued, was ready to join the U.S. and other democracies in a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
With his old-fashioned gold spectacles planted firmly on his nose, Socialist Attlee spoke in his flat, toneless voice. The friendship of the U.S. was essential, he said. But "if there are differences, they should be stated." His theme was that vigorous U.S. policies in Asia might rile the touchy Communists and set off a world war with H-bombs. Said Attlee: "We are as anti-Communist as the U.S. . . . We oppose aggression, we oppose Communist infiltration tactics, we recognize the need for adequate strength; but we stand for peaceful coexistence...
...understand perfectly the American fear of militant Communism and of possible Chinese aggression throughout Asia," said Attlee, as if the Chinese invasion of North Korea were a figment of American imagination. But, he added in the most astonishing remark of the day, "here is a revolutionary government which is undoubtedly supported by the mass of the people . . . The Communists have offered China Nationalism and the land...
...happened? It was not nature that changed. The land remains, the rains still fall, the rivers flow in the same measure. But under the pounding of warriors and nomads, the ancients' brilliantly intricate system of water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central Asia, smashed Mesopotamia's elaborate crisscross of canals and dehydrated the Garden of Eden. The waiting Bedouin nomads advanced into the Sinai and Negeb like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces, broke...
...detection of penetration and espionage . . . With Asia and West Europe threatened, he has distracted public opinion from the world's critical danger spots . . . Unless he has his way, he's willing to destroy the Eisenhower Administration at a time when it's grappling with a world crisis . . . Essentially he's no investigator. He's a headline-maker." Johnny-Come-Lately. Woltman found that McCarthy makes headlines by "wild twisting of facts and near facts [which] repels authorities in the field." For his adversaries, McCarthy has a special technique that "consists of imputing [to them] treason...