Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next week I will receive my 1,000th copy of TIME. I have sworn 999 times never to read TIME again. But each time it appears in the mail box I get nosey to know what's going on in Asia, who the best ten Senators are, etc. As usual next month we'll subscribe again. If you ever stop piquing me, I'll know I'm washed...
Doubtless there is some danger involved in the decision to send American and South Korean forces across the 38th parallel at this time. It will certainly reinforce the Communist propaganda line in Asia where the propaganda charges American or white imperialism. It may provoke the Peking government of China, or perhaps the Kremlin, into some new aggressive action, even into an all-out war. But in the present situation the risks involved in immediately occupying all of Korea appear to be sound...
...action of the Eighth Army means that the North Koreans will probably have no opportunity to reorganize their forces; if, as seems doubtful, they are considering surrender, the North Koreans will be more likely to respond to force than kindness. And as to the question of propaganda in Asia, so long as central governments control all means of communication (as they do in China and Russia) any of our actions will be turned against us in the official pronouncements. But as long as the United States keeps its hands free from "capitalist-imperialist" intentions, it need not be ashamed...
...remarkably high state of morale, considering the debilitating effects of our new policy of "neutralization." Nationalist leaders see in Secretary Acheson's latest move a blow which, if it is allowed to fall, will destroy the Nationalists and eliminate their armed forces as a factor against Communism in Asia...
...most important reason why we should not have taken this step is one that will not be altered by any future U.N. legitimization. This is the effect of the seemingly unilateral American action on Asia, especially on India and Communist China. India had always hoped for some solution in Korea that would not involve going beyond the thirty-eihth parallel, and Chou En-Lai, China's foreign minister, announced Saturday tha this country would not "supinely tolerate seeing her neighbors being savagely invaded by imperialists." India may eventually go along with the eight-nation proposal in the Assembly, and China...