Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of the week from Korea, dominated by General Boatner's success in cleaning up the prisoner-of-war camps (see WAR IN ASIA), was ominously backlighted by a more enduring fact: the Korean war, long in a mess, is falling into a worse mess day by day. Washington muddling has fashioned a deadfall in which U.S. policy has been trapped. The current U.S. policy position 1) gives the Reds every reason not to allow a truce and 2) invites the Reds to take the offensive in Korea, or elsewhere in Asia, with the assurance of minimum retaliation from...
...policy as of last week: 1) If a truce is reached and the Communists later return to the offensive in Korea, the U.S. and its allies by agreement will strike back by bombing and blockading China. But no such agreement has been reached to cover attacks elsewhere in Asia...
Meanwhile, Washington showed its impotence in other phases of Asia policy...
...allowed the political situation in South Korea to flounder to a point where old (77) Syngman Rhee could make the U.S. look ridiculous by cutting off Voice of America broadcasts (see WAR IN ASIA). The real point of the Rhee scandal is that after two years of war in Korea, the U.S. has neither been able to trust Rhee or to find some other leader whom it could trust...
...philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia...