Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attack. In Korea General MacArthur took the bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea. The Chinese met the U.N. offensive with a heavy counterattack (see WAR IN ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations...
...could never act alone. It had to deal with its friends, as well as its enemies. The question for the moment was whether MacArthur could take the rest of North Korea before the conciliators gave it away-and threw away the prestige which the U.N. had recently won in Asia...
...favorite guess is 20-25. (Estimates about the U.S. atom bomb stockpile run from several hundred to "a small four figures.") It is certain that Russia's uranium ores are low-grade. A half-dozen or so deposits were discovered in 1944 in the Tashkent area of central Asia. The other main Soviet uranium source is northeast of Lake Baikal, in Siberia...
First Phase. Russia would hold together under U.S. atomic bombing while the Red army took over Western Europe and the Communist Parties consolidated Red power in Asia. Meanwhile, Russian atomic bombing of the U.S. would try to force an armistice or, at least, throw the U.S. off balance so that its offensive strength could not be brought to bear...
Owen Lattimore and Paul Linebarger will join Professor Sundamar in a discussion of the "Struggle in Asia...