Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence of new administrations in Washington and Moscow creates a host of urgent questions. The Korean truce crisis opens ill-defined opportunities and painful threats in the struggle for Asia; the European alliance creaks with strain; riots and strikes in East Germany call for a sharper U.S. policy toward West Germany; at home, a new defense budget is tossed about in fuzzy controversy; new Government policies toward taxes, business, farming, labor are on the national agenda...
...Asia, the results of Korea are less tangible. U.S. intervention...
...Pinned down the bulk of Red China's army, which otherwise might have overrun all Southwest Asia. If Korea had not been resisted, Japan itself might now be gone...
...China had gained face all over Asia by fighting the U.N. armies to a military null Yet its losses were enormous, its five-year plan stalled for lack of steel and treasure that was poured out in Korea. And Peking had visibly failed to do what it had set out to do: to unify Korea under Chinese tutelage. No amount of "face" can undo the fact that all Red China's men have not changed the map. Whether the Communists have been "taught that aggression does not pay" is an open question. At least, since June 1950, there have...
...foreign-aid budget which Ike recommended, Asia received a share which...