Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interest of Peace." Speaking to the American Legion at St. Louis, Dulles made a direct statement of U.S. intentions in Asia. On Korea, he stressed two points: 1) the Communists can no longer count on their "privileged sanctuary" beyond the Yalu, if they attack Korea again; 2) knowing that the Communists like to use negotiation as "a cover for achieving ulterior purposes," the U.S. will not let the Korean peace talks drag on indefinitely...
Dulles took up the question of possible Chinese Communist aggression in Asia, outside Korea. "Many believe," he said, "that neither the First World War nor the Second World War would have occurred if the aggressor had known what the United States would do. It is even more probable that the Korean war would not have occurred if the aggressor had known what the United States would...
...Reds a chance to prolong indefinitely the negotiation of a specific settlement, and 2) tie the question of Korean settlement to the demand of Red China for a seat in the U.N. The U.S. is not opposed to a round-table conference per se, but objects to an Asia-wide conference until the Chinese Communists have proved their intentions on the specifics of Korea...
...cries of "intransigence" faded somewhat once Lodge had won his point. But in the great hubbub, few stopped to realize that by holding to a firm policy, the U.S. had resisted a tempting form of appeasement -and thus probably contributed solidly to any genuine settlement to be made in Asia (if the Communists really want...
Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...