Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...partition of Indo-China all along, worked at a plan of their own. Once "zonalisa-tion" (as they called it) is achieved, the new frontiers could be guaranteed by a collective-security organization like that Dulles suggested-but with one difference. All or most of the Commonwealth nations in Asia would be included, in particular India, though Nehru was unlikely to agree to any guarantee worth having...
Chou's maiden speech in international councils was worthy of his Moscow tutors. The U.S., he declared, was the villain-he motioned no other Western powers. The U.S. was creating "an aggressive bloc in Asia," had occupied Formosa, "and its occupation by anybody can in no case be tolerated," was establishing "a new colonial rule in Asia." Said Chou: "We also hold that interference in the internal affairs of the Asian nations should be stopped, all foreign military bases in Asia be removed, foreign armed forces stationed in Asian countries be withdrawn, the remilitarization of Japan be prevented...
...week's end, Dulles tried to patch together a few scraps from the debris-though the Indo-China conference had not yet even formally begun. He called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
Lessons from a Robot. Clark went to Asia after two years as U.S. High Commissioner in Austria, where he got an on-the-scene grounding in fundamental Communist mentality and method. His Russian opposite number in Vienna was Marshal Konev, a pleasant enough fellow at a diplomatic reception. But "Konev, the social companion, and Konev, the servant of world revolution, were two different beings . . . He was a mental robot saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin." So, in Korea, it came as no surprise...