Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the question of right prompted widespread misgivings, based largely on the fear that truce-on the most lenient terms the U.N. has yet offered-might turn out in fact to be victory for the Communists. Fearful of impending advantages for the Communists in Asia, the Senate Appropriations Committee, by a vote of 20 to 3, attached a rider to an appropriations bill providing that the U.S. will cut off funds for the United Nations if Communist China is admitted to the U.N. In Cincinnati, Senate Majority Leader Robert A. Taft proposed that the U.S. "forget the United Nations...
...question of right took on new and more dangerous proportions when Syngman Rhee's South Korean government voiced its violent opposition to the new United Nations truce plan (see WAR IN ASIA). Furious because the current plan does not point toward a unified Korea, the South Korean leaders threatened to pull their troops out of the U.N. and fight on alone...
...other allies know that we are withdrawing from all further peace negotiations in Korea . . . It seems to me that from the beginning we should have insisted on a general peace negotiation with China, including a unification of Korea under free Koreans, and a pledge against further expansion in Southeast Asia...
Stalin, like Marx before him, overlooked the fact that healthy capitalism creates its own expanding market by 1) raising the living standards of its people; 2) opening new frontiers, such as Africa. Yet in Europe, and Asia last week, there were some, not all of them Reds, who thought that Stalin's prophecy might be on the way to coming true. Only economic issues, said Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins, can ever drive a wedge between America and Britain...
BRITAIN, whose daily bread depends on worldwide trade, was mightily disturbed at the prospect of receding markets in both Asia and America. Ex-Labor Minister Harold Wilson went bustling off to Moscow in search of timber supplies for Britain's housing drive; Bevanite Sydney Silverman stayed at home and told the House of Commons that "nothing can be more ridiculous than [our] straining every nerve . . . to export goods to the one market [the U.S.] in all the world that does not need them . . . whereas all over the world there are [Communist] markets waiting . . ." Even Rab Butler, the commonsensical Tory...