Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...peak of efficiency. Our industrial plant was intact, and we alone had the atomic bomb . . . But our leaders wholly failed to realize the nature of Communism . . . Their policies at Yalta and Potsdam established Stalin in full control of Central Europe, dominating Europe, and in full control of China, dominating Asia...
...free world's cooperative strength against Communism. His views on the necessity of a stronger Air Force and the Navy emphasize this position. But his political opposition to Truman has led him into some extreme and sometimes puzzling statements. One day he called for a stronger front in Asia; on the next for a cut in military expenditures. The two positions are not necessarily inconsistent, but they sound inconsistent-and Fighting Bob does not pause to reconcile them in the minds of voters...
Window's Way, by James Ramsey Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what to do when the government troops retreat. Shall he retreat with them, or stay on, in Red territory, and do what he can for the peasants? His wife deserts him, and friends misunderstand him, but Dr. Windom, caring more for people than for isms, decides to stick...
...singular unofficial relationship to it . . . affected the future of every American now alive . . . Their names, with half a dozen exceptions, still mean little or nothing to the mass of Americans. But their activities, if only in promoting the triumph of Communism in China, have decisively changed the history of Asia, of the U.S., and therefore, of the world. If mankind is about to suffer one of its decisive transformations, if it is about to close its 2,000-year-old experience of Christian civilization, and enter upon another wholly new and diametrically different, then that group may claim a part...