Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that it may persuade Russia to check her aggression and perhaps to come to a peace settlement. In Europe, it is based on the Atlantic pact, and a commitment to place six to ten U.S. divisions in Europe as the West Europeans build up their own forces. In Asia, there is no clear policy...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...
...about Asia? Douglas turned to the other alternative. He called it the "Protect Europe but Not Asia" position, and he attributed its strength to "the councils of the executive Government and a number of able publicists." This school, he said, would let the shark gobble Asia and, with it, the Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent...
Should we leave Korea, for one reason or another, continued Fairbank, concentration of military strength in Western Europe must be increased. In addition, a program of political and social aid to Asia must be begun on a scale far larger than that provided by the U.N.E.S.C.O...
...hurt the war potential of China." added Fairbank, "because it's not concentrated. The massacre of the people that would ensue would be called 'victimizing the Chinese' by the people of Asia, and would hurt our reputation seriously...