Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, MacArthur found "a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia, but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic." In Japan, "the Japanese people since the war have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history . . ." In the Philippines, "we must be patient and understanding and never fail them, as in our hour of need they did not fail us." On Formosa, "the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength...
Even to those who fully sensed the U.S. public's indignation at Harry Truman's summary firing of the nation's No. 1 soldier, it was an amazing phenomenon. For even to those who looked on his battle plan for Asia with misgiving, Douglas MacArthur was a hero, a brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with...
Truman: No. "We would be running a very grave risk of starting a general war ... We would become entangled in a vast conflict on the Continent of Asia...
MacArthur: "[Communist China is] a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia, but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion . . . There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up . . . Their interests are at present parallel with those of the Soviet...
Truman: "The whole Communist imperialism is back of the attack on peace in the Far East . . . They want to control all Asia from the Kremlin...