Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fool ourselves, we have not reached the hearts of the masses in Africa, Asia, or even in Italy or France. But the Communists have, by promises and other false methods," I N. Steinberg, who quit the Revolutionary Government in 1918 and came to the United States, told a Liberal Union forum...
...represents a holding operation in a crucial theater in the struggle between the Communist and non-Communist worlds. Defeat now for the French and Vietnamese would mean not only the lose of Indo-China itself, but eventual Communist domination of Burma, Thailand, and virtually all of Southeast Asia. In addition, it would enormously strengthen the prestige of Communist China. And weakness or defeat in Asia would lead to a serious decline of French influence in Europe, for it would show even more graphically that France is no longer a major world power. Clearly, then, a line must be drawn, across...
...entry into the Indo-China war will lead to full-scale war with Communist China. But Chinese fear of our massive retaliation would make such a war unlikely. War is, however, a risk the United States must take. The only alternative to this risk is Communist control of Southeast Asia...
Meanwhile yesterday, delegates from 19 countries, called together by the Big Four to bring peace to Asia, met for the first time in Geneva. Although the talks were to discuss Korea as well as Indochina, the urgent question of the fate of South Asia overshadowed the Korean issue in many minds...
Author Lewis is an old hand at describing Southeast Asia to stay-at-homes (A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth). His novel is not just the somber story of a so-so sahib, but a report on a theater of change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars...