Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British administration, headed by Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, is probably the best any British possession has ever had. The government is bringing along natives as No. 2 men in all departments. By Oriental standards education is already advanced (literacy is around 40%), and big school-building programs are afoot. On my way out to see Mac-Donald at "Bukit Serene," three miles from Johore Bahru, the Malayan taxi driver said: "If we were going five miles, I would have to ask you to lie down on the floor. The bandits keep watch at five miles...
This analysis was echoed a couple of days later by Marshal Tito's theoreticians in Belgrade. The government-inspired Review of International Affairs argued that Korea has become an arena where Russia and China are competing for dominance of all Asia. Stalin was ahead until his North Korean puppets collapsed, and that, according to Tito's pundits, was Mao's cue to leap "into the forefront...
...Chinese troops in Korea," speculated the Review, "were not saving the reputation of Moscow but serving the assertion of China as a new factor in Asia. The former Soviet sphere of influence is under the occupation of Chinese troops...
...from full or convincing. On the other hand, the following are hard facts: the Chinese Red army has Russian-made planes; Peking's officers have some 23,000 Russian military advisers at their elbows; Red China's and Red Russia's immediate goals in Asia are the same-destruction of non-Communist governments; Russia has given Red China its fullest support...
...weeks later, war in Asia began...