Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Large John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Republican adviser, bolstered this thesis with evidence. He reminded his listeners that Mao had repeatedly testified to his "master-disciple relationship" with Stalin, had spent nearly three months in Moscow in 1949 before returning to call on all Southeast Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert that it is in China's interests to shovel its youth and material resources into the fiery furnace of Korean war to gain South Korea...
...Juggling of ship registry. Last week the British freighter Nancy Moller, under charter to a Chinese firm, tried to take a cargo of rubber into China. A British warship ordered her back to Singapore. U.S. freighters, under Panamanian registry, are also evading the embargo (see WAR IN ASIA). Panama, however, voted for the U.N. embargo, is now under obligation to curb such sailings...
DANGER ZONES Tantrum at Singapore U.S., British and French military men met last week for the first time to discuss a common strategy for defending Southeast Asia against the Red guerrillas in Indo-China and Malaya. The doings of the four-day session in Singapore were top secret; a communiqué said only that the talks "promise well for the future." Actually, the conference turned into a covert struggle between the French and British for U.S. support and supplies...
Behind De Lattre's show of temper was a serious argument: the French feel that the British are still not tough enough in their Asia policy. France wants a coordinated Western command, capable of countering Communism's offensive in Southeast Asia. After four days of discussion, De Lattre left the conference with an important promise for his Indo-China army: he would get more U.S. planes, particularly transports. But he did not get the assurance of effective military cooperation that he wanted...
...that the U.N. call for a truce at 4 a.m. on June 25, the first anniversary of the Korean war. Johnson spoke of the Korean war as "a hopeless conflict of attrition and indecision . . . needless human slaughter." He implied that the U.S. ought to pull out, leaving "Asia for Asiatics...