Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparent (see WAR IN ASIA) that the U.S. is not going to win the Korean war. Washington has not the will to win it. During eight months of truce negotiations, U.S. forces have grown weaker, the enemy stronger. There is no will to achieve anything more than a stalemate. All Asia will note as a great new fact that the U.S. was unable to cope with the Chinese Reds...
...baby Republic of Indonesia, just 26 months old, is trying to walk a neutral course down the shaky sidewalk of Southeast Asia. In its uncertainty, it makes a policy of staring haughtily at friendly nods of recognition. Last week a U.S. offer of a mere $8,000,000 worth of technical and economic aid was enough to send the Indonesian parliament into a dither of protests that might yet bring the government tumbling down, cradle...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...
...news postponed a critical struggle for power within the Labor Party, and rescued Winston Churchill from a situation that was causing him real concern. The issue which the House of Commons debated was whether Britain should stand beside the U.S. in whatever new perils may come in Asia. Tangled in that issue was a latent mistrust of the U.S., a concern over Britain's role of junior partner, and the political ambitions of Left-Wing Rebel Nye Bevan...
...Southeast Asia already is a battle-ground in many respects," Emerson said. Even if the French win in Indo-China, "they have lost much more there economically than they could hope to gain...