Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position to invest much more in Korea," Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, told the CRIMSON last night. But a voluntary withdrawal would be taken by the people of Asia as a token that we didn't believe in our reason for going; to fight aggression and uphold world order...
John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and specialist on the Far East, agreed that the present campaign is coating too much and is not worth the price. If we were pushed out, however, we would not loose as much "face" in Asia as if we merely withdrew, he said...
Failure to understand this at home & abroad frustrates the making of U.S. policy and accounts for both the wave of anti-foreign sentiment sweeping the U.S. and the wave of anti-American sentiment in Europe and Asia...
...Great Debate, did not seem worried about op country overextending itself. He was looking for opportunities, not for survival. What's more, the free world's analysts conceded to China a very good chance of making good on Wu's threats to Japan and Southeast Asia...
...knew what was to become of them if & when the U.N. line once more shrank to the narrow Pusan perimeter-or the U.N. forces were forced out of Korea altogether. Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the refugees' plight: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has ever been subjected in the course of its long history . . . Everything else is dwarfed by the pathos of this tragedy, and our American people haven't the faintest concept of it. In the words of Shakespeare, 'There are more things in heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt...