Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, he urged a union of all free Asians against the Communist threat. "Asia," he said, "is what might be called the area of decision in the modern world. [Japan] is one in whose hands the destiny of Asia, and thus of the world, must rest. Whether it is to be a free or a slave world is a decision we all face...
...against extending this war ... to any greater sphere of land mass of Asia, like Manchuria ..." The U.S. should "confine our fighting to Korea, if possible, but with a victory, military victory...
...Asia's No. 3 war is going well. Thirteen months after he arrived in Malaya with a directive from Churchill to clean up the Communists, High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer announced last week that mass detentions and deportations are no longer necessary. Hated regulation 170, under which the British have arrested and screened whole villages, kept more than 10,000 suspected Communist collaborators in concentration camps and deported 761 others, was abolished. "We are about where I hoped we should be by this time," wiry General Templer told the Malayan Federal Legislative Council, with about as much optimism...
...Asia, says Dr. Van Dusen, this kind of service has done much to overcome tendencies toward anti-Americanism. Even among the headhunters in Formosa, "there is taking place today one of the most remarkable mass movements into the Christian church . . . Since the war, they have built with their own hands over 100 new churches...
Lodge continued: ". . . Last week the Soviet representative [Vishinsky] said to me, 'You are going to lose Asia anyway.' That astounding remark made me realize how far apart his view of humanity is from mine. The U.S. is not trying to get Asia. We have never thought of Asia as some sort of object inhabited by slaves which was to be won or lost by outsiders...