Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea. After 83 days of defeat, retreat and dogged defense on the Pusan perimeter, General MacArthur threw a mixed corps of soldiers and marines into an assault on the Communist-held Korean capital of Seoul-a strike which might well shorten the Korean war by months (see WAR IN ASIA). Washington, also, had its Page One reports of a change for the better. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was fired by an irate President, and General of the Army George Catlett Marshall came out of retirement to succeed...
...consulted: John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and director of Regional Study Program on China; Bruce C. Hopper '24, associate professor of government, instructor in the Regional Program on the Soviet Union, and teacher of a course on "Russia and Asia in World Politics;" Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and instructor in the Regional Program on China; and Benjamin Schwartz, instructor in History and member of the Russian Research Center, Far Eastern Division...
Reischauer questioned whether the stragetic value of keeping the Reds out of Formosa was enough to offset the loss of United States face in Asia caused by supporting Chiang. "Fortunately," he added, "the defense of Formosa is tied in with Korea, and when we, leave Korea we can quietly retreat from Formosa...
Both Fairbank and Schwartz took issue against the recent MacArthur letter on Formosa. Fairbank asserted that the MacArthur statements overrates the Far East in our global policy. He also felt that the letter was politically in-expedient, in so far as it "went against our argument in Asia that we had no designs on Formosa...
...Here [in Korea], as in Formosa, Indo-China and elsewhere in Asia, the West is defending a lost cause...