Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directive from the White House. It never came. Yet a firm decision was made, largely by the ist Marine Division. When the marines fought their way down to Hungnam through the "unconquerable Chinese hordes," and embarked for Pusan with their equipment, their wounded and their prisoners, the war in Asia took on a different look. The news stories, pictures and newsreels of the Hungnam action contributed more to forming U.S. policy than all the words in the "Great Debate." The nation-and the revitalized Eighth Army-now knows that U.S. fighting men will stay in Korea until a better place...
...still favor both concessions. Nevertheless, U.S. policy is setting firmly against them. The Reds themselves have tied up U.N. admission and the possession of Formosa so tightly with their Korean invasion that the U.S. cannot give way without abandoning Korea and, with it, the whole anti-Communist position in Asia. Slowly but certainly, the decision to stay in Korea will lead the U.S. toward cooperation with half a million anti-Communist Chinese on Formosa in an effort to liberate China...
...Indo-China, that helpless feeling has vanished. There as elsewhere in Southeast Asia, the U.S. will give active support to anti-Communist forces...
India's naive "neutrality" serves as a reminder of how much hard political work needs to be done before Asia is in a position to defend itself against Communism. That the U.S. sees patience as a necessary element in the process is evident from the nation's sympathy toward Nehru's request for U.S. grain...
This makes for increasingly hard choices in the Kremlin. The Russians can strike now, overrun Europe and Asia, and see their own cities destroyed by A-bombs. Or they can build toward effective A-bomb equality while the free world builds the defenses of Europe and Asia...