Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 11 listing of the six courses open to the U.S. and its allies in Asia...
...line in the lower part of an Asiatic appendix. China was under complete Communist control. In the two years since he became Secretary, the U.S. had become entangled in a paradox: insisting that its real concern was Europe, it nevertheless now had virtually all its effective soldiers in Asia. Europe, instead of being reassured by all the earnests of U.S. help, was filled with doubts and suspicions...
...Case for-. It was on this record in Asia and in Europe that Dean Acheson deserved to be judged. The debate roused considered and telling criticisms of his policy; it was also complicated by reckless, demagogic assaults from Senator Joe McCarthy, which were a national disgrace...
...Secretary after a brief interim with his old Washington law firm Acheson therefore inherited some of the policies and problems which he had helped create. Although he might have preferred to turn his back on the East, he was prodded into facing it. Gingerly he measured the problem of Asia, which by this time was well on the way to becoming an immeasurable disaster...
...Pacific from AIaska to the Philippines, and declared: "So far as the military security of other areas in the Pacific [e.g., Formosa, Korea] is concerned it must be clear that no person can guarantee those areas against military attack." That statement signified the great U.S. write-off of Asia...