Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towering scorn on the Communists in a historic verbal nose-twisting. More significant than words were Ridgway's deeds: at week's end, through the hot skies of Korea roared a force of B293 to plaster the once-untouchable North Korean port of Rashin "(see WAR IN ASIA). Throughout the period of his command, MacArthur urged the bombing of Rashin. On Aug. 12, 1950 he did bomb it, but further attacks on Rashin were forbidden by Washington. "It was a question of the risk involved," Secretary Marshall explained later, "in an operation so close to the Soviet frontier...
...Wheel. British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...
...East policy has been a catastrophic failure . . . the most desolate ... in the history of our foreign policy . . ." Notable exception: Japan, where General MacArthur was in charge. The Administration has been "unduly preoccupied with the defense of America in Europe, to the neglect of the defense of America in Asia ... It is unfortunate, but true, that the State Department has been affected by a group who have interpreted Asiatic problems to the advantage of Russia rather than that of the United States . . . The truth about the pro-Communist State Department group has not yet been revealed...
...Overthrow the Present Government and Achieve a Communist State." Last year, Wang came back to Indonesia as Red Chinese ambassador. He set about importing professional organizers (as part of his embassy staff), reviving the native Communist Party, building up what neighboring governments regard as Communist headquarters for Southeast Asia...
...nurses waited on the platform at the Strasbourg station. The train from Germany pulled in, and eight men got out. They were reluctant wanderers, helpless victims of two mighty tyrannies, home for the first time in seven years. As P.W.s, they had been pushed around Europe and Asia, and released finally a fortnight ago from a Soviet labor camp in Kiev...