Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' bedrock argument was that if the U.S. wants to preserve its diplomatic gains in Europe, there is no way out of a subsequent conference on Asia. Molotov's aim at Berlin was to split off France from the Big Three; France's Foreign Minister Bidault was under instructions from his government to work for negotiations with Peking. It is far better-the Dulles argument continued-to have joint negotiations than to split the Big Three and have France negotiating with the Communists...
Looking ahead, the outcome at Geneva depends on what the West is prepared to do about Asia. And the West does not know. Paris wants to end the unpopular Indo-China war. France's General Henri Navarre, the able French commander in Indo-China, believes the war can be won with more strength. Yet French leaders in Indo-China do not want too much U.S. help for fear that the help might provoke Communist China into open intervention. Within the Eisenhower Administration, the situation is just as confused: one faction of the State Department thinks Indo-China...
Risk & Opportunity. In this confusion lies the principal reason why Geneva can be more dangerous than Berlin. The U.S. knows its mind on Europe much better than it does on Asia. Just like Panmunjom, Geneva can become an irrevocable byproduct of aimlessness unless President Eisenhower and Dulles succeed in defining objectives in Asia. If they do not, they run high risk at Geneva; if they do, the risk is lower, and Geneva takes on the look of opportunity...
...Strange Animal." Nehru had no time to lose, for in all India, the Communists are strongest in Travancore. The state boasts a 54% literacy rate-the highest in Asia outside Japan; it sends 98.8% of its children to school. It is 32% Christian. It has more doctors, engineers and teachers per capita than any other state in India. But Travancore also has the highest "educated unemployment" rate in India, and wages are low. Thousands of primary-school teachers get only $6 a month; they lean towards Communism like many other frustrated intellectuals, and indoctrinate their pupils-and through them...
...Give a weasel-word reply. 6. In the foreign relations field Ike had plenty of trouble in his own party over the Bricker Amendment, which had been designed to: 1. Extend the Monroe Doctrine to Asia...