Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been cries throughout the country to impeach them." Douglas was probably correct, but not in the sense that he intended. The U.S. had accepted a Korean armistice because it trusted Dwight Eisenhower to make the most of the uneasy peace to work out a firm approach to Communism in Asia-something that Truman and Acheson had never been able...
There is increasing evidence that the Eisenhower Administration is working out just such an approach, with an eye to the concrete details. Last week, at the Governors' Conference in Seattle, the President had some things to say about the continuing goals of U.S. policy in Asia, now that the armistice has been signed. Immediate object: the defense of Indo-China...
Line Blocked. Said the President: "The last great population remaining in Asia that has not become dominated by the Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
Fresh from his trip out on the line in Asia, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew home this week, bringing the results of his conferences with Syngman Rhee: a hard and fast treaty of alliance between the U.S. and the Republic of South Korea, which assures the Koreans of U.S. military protection, without binding the U.S. to support any vagaries of Rhee's foreign policy. Also, with a $1 billion aid program, Dulles agreed to build up ravaged South Korea into "an Asian show window of democracy.'" Clearly, the U.S. has firmly planted the flag of freedom...
...NEWS). Konrad Adenauer, the last of the triumvirate of "good Europeans" who piloted Europe on the road to postwar unity, faced new elections in which his survival was by no means certain. The British had about decided to oppose the U.S. at the Korean peace talks on policy in Asia...