Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOREIGN RELATIONS An Asia Policy Will Russia blunder into war? Probably not in Europe, where allied defense lines are already drawn and few power vacuums exist, said Tom Dewey last week. But in the Pacific, the Kremlin can still make the fatal miscalculation. Dewey's solution, arrived at during a two-month tour of the Pacific: "Start immediately to build a well-rounded and complete Pacific mutual-defense alliance...
...France. Whether the U.S. likes it or not, the U.S. is very much in the "dirty war" itself; while that war continues to drain from France what the U.S. puts in, France cannot be expected to pull her full weight in NATO. In Indo-China the battle lines of Asia and Europe merge. This is the crucial point which Douglas MacArthur fought to prove, i.e., that Communism cannot go unchecked in Asia and still be defeated in Europe...
...Lattre wants even more. A scornful opponent of bits-&-pieces warfare, De Lattre burningly wants the U.S., Britain and France to agree on a unified strategy against Communism in Southeast Asia. He insists that Korea, Indo-China and Malaya (where 32,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers are still fighting Red guerrillas) are only different battles of the same war; they should all be fought within an overall plan...
...declared Mr. Justice Douglas, is "relying on guns and dollars rather than ideas . . . Out there you never hear the U.S. voice raised in defense of the little guy . . . What Asia needs is sympathy, understanding, an attitude of cooperation in the things they are trying to do."Douglas spoke glowingly about "land reform,"a magic phrase to liberals and leftists. Douglas was dissatisfied with what the U.S. is doing about land reform: "MacArthur's [land reform] program made no impression at all in Asia, outside of Japan...
...bronze gong, a Chinese woman in a richly brocaded gown began speaking Mandarin into a goosenecked microphone. Her message, delivered for the first time just after sunup one morning last week, sped 6,000 miles across the Pacific to pierce the bamboo curtain that surrounds Red China. Radio Free Asia...