Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea the backbone of Communist resistance was broken, but on the larger battlefield of Asia, the week brought defeat as well as victory for the free world. The French position in northern Indo-China was made exceedingly precarious by a brilliant campaign of Ho Chi Minh's troops, recently trained and equipped by the Chinese Reds (see below...
...months of reporting there, reports a reaction among officers and men of the Eighth Army to one of the stories he wrote that surprised and delighted them. The story was called "The Ugly War" (TIME, LIFE, Aug. 21). It made the point that the war against the Communists of Asia could not be won by military means alone but required political savvy as well. An attempt to win it, as the U.S. was doing in Korea, only by force of arms would court eventual failure and force upon U.S. soldiers in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery...
...President, declared that his government was discredited. Other observers believe that Rhee's government was just beginning to hit its stride last June and that the Reds attacked when they did because they could not afford to tolerate the example of an effective, popular anti-Communist government in Asia...
...wartime conduct of the South Korean people as well as of their leaders reflected favorably on Rhee's government. The R.O.K. army, which suffered few desertions, proved itself the most determined and effective of Asia's anti-Communist armies. And, contrary to all expectations, there was little true guerrilla activity in South Korea. There were innumerable attacks by North Korean irregular troops, but few proved instances of South Korean peasants or workers attacking U.N. forces...
...United States cannot afford to make another mistake in Chinese affairs. Its position in Asia is too weak to stand many more severe blows. In discussing the Formosa issue in the U.N., therefore, the U. S. should take care to be extremely circumspect. This is one time in modern world politics when making a big noise will...