Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past three days, while East met West at Geneva, five Eastern states have been meeting together at Colombo, Ceylon, in an attempt to find common ground on which all Southeast Asia can stand. Although the prime ministers of India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, and Indonesia agreed to a resolution branding aggression and colonialism as threats to peace, India and Indonesia would not agree to a similar condemnation of Communism...
...China. The other Common-wealth nations in this region, Australia and New Zealand, have also expressed a strong interest in a mutual security arrangement. In addition, a place might eventually be found for Japan and the Philippines. So constituted, such an organization would be an effective third force in Asia. Much additional strength would come from treaties of aid and mutual defense with the United States. It is important, however, that neither the U.S. nor the Chinese Nationalists be included. Inclusion of either could trigger a war with Communist China, for the pact would be termed one of imperialism...
Though a regional security treaty would be a major long-range factor in safeguarding Southeast Asia for democracy, it could have little effect on the present situation in Indo-China. This is because there has been no external aggression, but only local rebellion. For the same reason, U.N. intervention at this time is impossible...
...have cultural and economic advantages equal to its military significance. If a free state were established in Indo-China, it would be easy prey to economic catastrophe during the first years following its separation from France. The stabilizing effect of close co-operation with the other nations of Southeast Asia would stave off domestic Communism...
...only necessary to point out that Russia made the same threats during the early days of NATO. Already guaranteed the close support of the United States, an Asian organization would be an effective coercive force against both China and Russia. The West has stated that Communism in Asia will be contained. But without the support of the free nations of the Far East, such a defense would be costly beyond measure. In regions composed of many small nations, Communism spreads by a gradual process of crumbling, not by decisive victories. Its progress can be stopped only if the small states...