Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomacy's ancient devices, in spreading a self-protecting fog, is to make changes while solemnly asserting that no change has been made. This was obviously what was happening in Foggy Bottom: State's Asia policy had been going through a slow strengthening over the past several months. In all of Dean Acheson's denials last week, he did not once deny that Rusk and Dulles had correctly stated State policy. His principal objection seemed to be that they should not have made it so clear...
While U.S. forces are trying to hold Western Europe and Asia, Communism might turn the flank from Iran. An American engineer, an old Iran hand, put it this way: "The 38th parallel runs right through Iran. We wouldn't even have to learn a new name...
...barracks, ready for trouble. For the present, at least, there was none. Beyond the capital, Iran's brown and barren face was peaceful. The skeletons of Persepolis, Susa, Pasargadae, the great dead imperial cities, were bleaching in the sun. Eastward the silent desert reached toward Asia. In the southwest, Iran's black treasure still gushed into the Abadan refinery from beneath the baked flats east of the Tigris. The people, moving herds across the plains and raising cotton in the steaming Caspian littoral, lived in poverty, as they had for centuries; as far as they thought about large...
...general-officer rank. Among V.M.I. alumni now on the Korean front: Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific; Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, commander of the X Corps; Major General Clark L. Ruffner, commander of the 2nd Division (see WAR IN ASIA...