Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large part this attitude which put America into such a panic over recent revolutions in Asia, making us feel we had "lost" China and could have kept it had Washington not bungled, Lattimore added...
Sundaram, speaking on "The Place of American in Asian Thought," declared the phrase "the awakening East" a misnomer. "Asia is fully awake," he said, "the future depends very much more on the awakening of America to the new world order than on the awakening of Asia...
Both speeches dealt in large part with the problems created by Western colonialism in Asia. The speakers agreed that the bitter feelings engendered by this policy are the source of much of the present friction and misunderstanding between Asia and America. They pointed out that although America was not one of the leading colonial powers in Asia, it never repudiated colonialism and in re- cent years has adopted much of its favor in Far Eastern Policy...
Lattimore saw a germ of present difficulties in our belief that we had "far more control over Asia than we turned out to have when the chips were down." He bemoaned the Western assumption that "big decisions about Asia were not made in Asia but in the countries that had power over Asia, and that power over Asia could be passed from band to hand but could not be transformed into power in Asia, held in Asian hands...
...question period, the speakers were asked whether they felt the U.S. should recognize Red China. Lattimore replied that he did not feel there was any great urgency for such recognition now, but urged that the feelings of the independent nations of Asia be given an important part in the making of this decision...