Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as China has so often been scourged by locusts, so today is Asia-and the world-plagued by Mao's Red hordes...
...those ignorant, stupid, opinionated and sometimes traitorous stuffed shirts who for years have shaped our foreign policy towards Asia, it was just the Mickey Finn the bartender ordered. For millions of other folk who do not read TIME but will be informed by those who do, I hope it is the political prelude to a deluge which will sweep these sub-mediocrities from office come 1952. That is, if we Americans are still around by then...
Korea, said he, was a "costly and staggering extravaganza." Postwar handouts to Western Europe had netted the U.S. not one "foul-weather friend." And the United Nations was a "hopeless instrumentality for world peace." Joe Kennedy, though as fervently anti-Communist as anyone could wish, favored abandoning Asia and Europe in the face of "massed manpower and military strength of a type that the world has never seen." He would concentrate U.S. troops and arms strictly in the Western Hemisphere...
...from. Alternative One called for all the powers that diplomacy, hard work and decision could muster. It had to be pursued as a task in operations, just as rearmament is a task in operations, and it had to be carried out without concessions on vital points, e.g.: abandonment of Asia to the Communists. Only if it failed would the second alternative be a choice, and it would be a Hobson's choice. The isolationists heard by the country last week were men who were ready to give up just as the great test was beginning...
...ever; the U.S. was obviously going to go from one crisis to another for as long as man could look ahead. The U.S. people, New York's Irving Ives was convinced, were fed up with Acheson. "It all stems from the tragic mistakes made in Asia. Acheson is not entirely responsible for what happened. But he has acquired a symbolic role. It's probably unfair to him in some ways...