Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must warn [them] that they cannot ever expect the Americans to prove to the millions of people in Asia and Africa that our form of government is really the best for them, when American citizens participate in such riots...
...terms of taking the offensive in the world struggle for freedom, and of rolling back the engulfing tide of despotism . . . In 1942 . . . we were not thinking about how to save our necks, but how to save freedom. We need more of that spirit today . . . In the vast areas of Asia and the Pacific, we have no adequate policy, largely because China, always until now our friendly partner, has been taken over by the allies of Soviet Communism. That calls for new thinking . . . Our particular opportunity . . . is Japan...
...beaten enemy such magnanimous terms after so savage a fight. Instead of a lash, it poured out ointment. It forgave Pearl Harbor. The idea was as revolutionary as Christianity itself. A "particular opportunity" had been grasped and, as a result (Dulles hoped), an astute offensive had been launched in Asia...
Protestations still rumbled around the world. India objected. She was not sure yet whether she would send delegates to the signing. Those were the indecisions on which the success of his treaty teetered. It was Asia, more than any other part of the globe, which had to be convinced of the sincerity of the U.S. proposition...
...serious probability that they will have one-U.S. policy should in that case do everything to widen the breach. The danger: the U.S. may let itself be talked into softening its stand against Mao without solid evidence that Mao is breaking away. If that happens, all Asia might go the way of China...