Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight. For a brief moment, in the first days of fall, the U.S. could draw a breath of satisfaction and relief. But there was no celebration, only the sense of a job done, or almost done. Crossing the 38th parallel involved more casualties and risks (see WAR IN ASIA...
...surrender speech was still two days off and supersecret. Hurriedly, Harry Truman grabbed for the ball. The newsmen would have to keep the matter of the surrender terms off the record, said he, until MacArthur delivered his speech, which he did at week's end (see WAR IN ASIA...
...blood of its men on foreign soil to defend an ally. Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott-to a consciousness of new power and prestige. Russia had showed herself to the troubled peoples of Asia and to all the Red satellites of Europe as a puppet-master who abandons the puppet when things go wrong...
Even after victory is won in Korea, a disturbing question will remain: Will there be other Koreas in Asia...
...Asian mainland's 16.3 million square miles, Communism controls about two-thirds, including Asia's heartland. Much of Asia's rimland is, however, nonCommunist, although under heavy pressure (see insert opposite...