Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Way. Templer's technique of fighting the guerrillas closely paralleled that of Asia's only other successful Communist killer, Philippines President Magsaysay. Both men combined ruthless military pressure with an all-out effort to get the majority of the people on their side...
...been growing friction between the two great powers of the Western alliance. Finally, last week there was a spark big enough to blow British-U.S. differences into headlines all around the world. At his press conference Dwight Eisenhower said that the U.S. might move forward in a southeast Asia alliance without Great Britain. In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill agreed with a Laborite who said that the opening of U.S.-French talks on Indo-China without Britain was "inconsistent with the spirit of the Western alliance." While some subsequent analyses of the U.S.-British rift were grossly exaggerated...
...threat to the Red River Delta (see below}-gave urgency to Bidault's insistent demands for help from the U.S. Warned Roger Seydoux, France's No. 2 diplomat in the U.S.: "France will not continue to be the foot soldier of the free world In Southeast Asia. The free nations will have to join the fight, not only with planes and ships, but also with troops." The U.S. replied with preliminary, tentative conditions: France must give Viet Nam complete independence, agree to step up its own military effort, accept an allied command...
...allowed the world in general, and Asians in particular, to conclude that Britain would not defend anything in Asia against Communism, even Malaya, if it meant risking a world...
...Though it had indeed pleased India's Nehru, it had risked Commonwealth ties in other quarters, annoying Australia and New Zealand, which are both anxious to get on with the Southeast Asia alliance for their own security...