Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other. Both concern the Korean truce talks that have dragged along for seven months. One Washington mood was described last week by a foreign diplomat as "a rising note of exasperation." The other mood is patience-continued patience until Communists break the uneasy stalemate that now prevails in East Asia...
...crowd, not many reporters, never a harsh word between witnesses and inquiring Congressmen. But the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preparing a report on the ratification of the peace treaty with Japan and supplementary Pacific defense alliances, gave an uncommon show of bipartisan agreement over a problem in Asia...
Hoover listed eight reasons for West European belief that the Russians will not invade (among them: the venture would be too risky; Stalin has enough trouble with dissident nationalities already under his wing; it's more profitable in Asia). Correct or not, he said, "Western Europe's lack of hysterics . . . calculation of low risk . . . lack of hurry to arm . . . requires that the United States recalculate our own risks and reconsider the possible alternatives . . ." Added facts for revaluation are the upheavals in the Middle East, the failure to forge victory in Korea, the "dangerous overstraining" of the U.S. economy...
...rest of the continent of Europe as fair game for Communist aggression." The governor, as he has done before, proposed a defensive alliance that would include not only Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but also the islands of Indonesia and the menaced countries of Southeast Asia. With the alliance, he said, there should be a clear warning that retaliation would be visited on any aggressor...
...profoundly convinced that, if we form such an alliance and issue such a warning, there will be no invasion of Southeast Asia ... If we do not take such action, the free Pacific will be lost...