Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United action by three nations--the United States, Great Britain and France--is essential to the defense of Europe . . . But each of these nations is involved in military and diplomatic problems in Asia which are to some degree peculiar to each country...
...attack, that he is doing well enough in the present atmosphere, that he is acquiring and expanding as rapidly as he can digest it; and that he is not going to attack and that is his basic policy. I do not believe that anything that happens in Korea, or Asia, for that matter, would affect his basic decision...
...Furthermore . . . there is nothing that would give the Kremlin greater satisfaction than to see our resources committed to an all-out struggle in Asia, leaving Europe exposed to Soviet armies. [And] if the United States were to widen the conflict, we might well have to go it alone. The path of collective security is our only sure defense against the dangers which threaten us. It is the path to peace ... in the world. We are determined to do our utmost to limit the war in Korea...
...allies agree with us in the course we are following ... If the United States were to widen the conflict, we might well have to go it alone. If we go it alone in Asia, we may destroy the unity of the free nations against aggression. Our European allies are nearer to Russia than we are. They are in far greater danger. If we act without regard to the danger that faces them, they may act without regard to the dangers that we face. Going it alone brought the world to the disaster of World War II. We cannot...
would take over and run Asia with American personnel or with puppets, whether they wanted a new colonialism or whether they expected "Western libertarian democracy to appear miraculously over-night...