Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatly helped by the Churchill mission, has reached with its U.N. partners in the Korean war an agreement in principle that may be a solution to the Communists' campaign of conquest in Asia. Its gist: if the Communists, after settling for a truce in Korea, begin a new aggression, the U.N. should try to punish Red China by some means more effective than merely picking up the Korean war where it was left off. The plan is to put the decision in the form of a warning, or ultimatum, to be proclaimed through the U.N. when & if a Korean...
...fact, broadening the proposal: it holds that an air and sea attack on Red China should be launched not only in the event of renewed aggression in Korea, but also in the event of a Chinese Communist move against Indo-China, Burma or any other sector of Southeast Asia...
Strategic Initiative. This plan is not necessarily an "expansion" or "extension" of the U.S. armed commitment in Asia. It can be just the opposite. Holding the war to the narrow limits of the Korean peninsula has strained U.S. naval and strategic air power by giving it a task for which it was not designed. Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Major General Roger M. Ramey, operations, chief of the Air Force general staff, said: "It is the Yalu River which has forced upon [us] an air war that is predominantly tactical. Less than 3% of the entire Far East...
From China, Churchill traveled across the trouble-spotted globe. He praised the U.S.-sponsored Japanese Peace Treaty, forecast more effective allied action in Southeast Asia, urged the Israelis to make peace with the Arabs, and then startled everyone (and roused no applause) by suggesting that U.S. forces might some day help guard the Suez Canal. (This proposal drew an adverse response from three interested parties: Washington officialdom, the British press and the Egyptian government...
...empowered to give France the specific military promise it wanted. Two days later however, in a speech in New York, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beamed a crucial warning to the Communists. "It should be understood," he said, "that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia-even if they were called vol- unteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event the United Nations should be equally solid to resist...