Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breaking Off. Before driving off in his dark green Cadillac, Norodom wrote a message to his "French friends." Said he: "I am anguished at having to break off relations with France.' All the nations of Asia have obtained full independence except for the three Associated States [of Indo-China]. I am convinced that Cambodia can become a great nation only if it attains total independence. France, by her behavior and her equivocation, gives us the impresson that she does not want to give Cambodia real independence, the only basis for agreement." In a long memorandum to the French High...
...became the first tough problem rising from the truce deal. Others as dangerous lay ahead. The truce left the whole issue of Chinese Commu nist aggression unsettled. The Chinese Reds not only were relieved of military pressure, but they were enormously more powerful in Asia, by reason of being encamped in North Korea. Until the Red troops vacate, a unified Korea has about as much chance as a unified Germany with the Red army occupying East Germany...
...will sign your armistice. And what then? Then you will have to recognize the Chinese Communists. And after you do this, all the small nations of Southeast Asia will do likewise...
...soft green islands of Indonesia, lifting their distant volcanoes against flashing thunderheads, lie melancholy and mysterious in the warm blue seas between the continents of Asia and Australia. U.S. and allied military forces swept through these islands in a few months of World War II, liberating them from Japanese conquest. Because the Roosevelt Administration objected violently to colonialism, the U.S. was determined that the islands should also be liberated from the Dutchmen who for more than 300 years had been masters of Indonesia...
...Thirty years ago," said he, "we were concerned only with what religion could do for the soldier. Now the soldiers make practical application of their religion, too." Exposure to the effects of Communism in Europe and Asia, he feels, has helped mightily. "The men in the Army have learned what an atheistic ideology, backed by violence, can do to a country...