Word: asia
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Communist Ho Chi Minh's order of the day was "Destroy the enemy, and achieve new feats of arms." In these terms last week the Communists launched a new major offensive in Asia. First objective: the eastern bank of the wide, fast-flowing Mekong River, fourth greatest in all Asia, and the border of Siam. Further objectives: still to unfold...
...Conclusion. For the past three weeks, Communist capitals of Europe and Asia have been subjected to stereotyped peace rallies. Moscow, Peking and Ho have said the war could be ended by negotiation. French Premier Laniel is on record that "the French government does not consider the Indo-Chinese problem as a matter which must necessarily be settled militarily." But Ho is demanding that France 1) recognize his government and get out of Indo-China, 2) exclude Bao Dai's Vietnamese nationalists from the peace talks, 3) make the first formal move to sue for peace. All this, coupled with...
Empire Troubles. Asia, with its short-fused peace in Korea, its seemingly unwinnable war in Indo-China, and its tendency to fear a dying colonialism more than an expansive Communism, remained the hot battlefield of the cold war. Appropriately, it had not one Man of the Year but three-men diverse in almost every respect: Jawaharlal Nehru, the exasperating high priest of neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies...
...Delhi had seen nothing like it since the fight for independence from the British Raj. Refugees and merchants, intellectuals and beggars, untouchables and children came surging from the dusty bazaars of the ancient capital, chanting "Hands off Asia" and "We don't want Pakistan to be another Korea." In Gandhi Park, the crowd milled around a great map of Asia, while Congress Party leaders attacked the "unholy and ill-designed" plan for U.S. arms aid to Pakistan...
...Pakistan and the cold war. "In our quiet way," he said, "we have worked for this area as ... the no-war area. Now if military aid comes to Pakistan from the U.S., the cold war, as it is called, comes to India's borders. The past history of Asia comes up before me -the history of colonial domination gradually creeping in. Foreign armies came in small numbers; they grew; they utilized our own people." If Pakistan accepted U.S. aid, said Nehru, it would be an offense against "the spirit...