Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dismissal of General MacArthur is a shock to practically all of us in the Philippines. Mac seems to be the only top American who understands the Asiatics and the Communists in Asia...
...vast fence that runs through the world is of considerable importance to the U.S. If this great, learned and widely beloved man swings a few inches either way-toward the democratic West or toward Communism-his shift can sway the suspended minds of millions in India and throughout Asia. The future of the democratic West depends in large measure on whether it can succeed in winning the confidence and friendship of the Asian peoples whom, until recently, it ruled. Western policymakers have hoped that Nehru-a man with known Western sympathies-is the Asian statesman who could lead...
...must support reform and revolution movements in Africa and Asia, or incur the hatred of the peoples of these areas, Emmanuel Margolis, teaching fellow in Government, warned for the Young Progressives. He pointed to contradictions in American foreign policy--that the fascist Franco and the Communist Tito are now defending democracy. He also warned of the "brutalization of the American people" who rejoice at the bombing of Korean civilians...
Europe, not Asia, is our main strategic stronghold, Taylor and Reischauer both maintained. By committing ourselves further in Asia, they said, we would be abandoning our allies in Europe...
MacArthur: "Here [in Asia] we fight Europe's wars with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words ... if we lose the war to Communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable; win it, and Europe most probably would avoid war yet preserve freedom . . . You cannot appease or otherwise surrender to Communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe...