Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State Dean Acheson who turned their heads. The main battleground, he argued, is not in Asia, where the shooting is, but in Europe, where the balance of world power is. And in its present state of unreadiness, Western Europe could be overrun any time Russia decided to march her gigantic land army westward...
Three Million Men. In Korea, said he, the U.S. and the United Nations had met the "brutal attack" of "Communist imperialism," had curbed it and were now confident "that it will be crushed." The U.S. wants nothing from Korea-or any part of Asia-except a chance for the people to be "free, independent and united." "The battle in Korea," he went on, "is the front line in the struggle between freedom and tyranny...
...locates every merchantman and warship in the Pacific-from a conference with MacArthur in Tokyo and a flying visit to the Korean front with Brigadier General Thomas J. Cushman, commander of the Fleet Marine Force. Radford was well pleased. He has no command responsibility for the fighting ships off Asia's coast. Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, who commands the Seventh Fleet, takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from the Chiefs of Staff. The carriers are commanded by folksy, twinkling Rear Admiral John ("Uncle John...
Down to see the contingent's main body off at Hong Kong's pier was Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, who sometimes wears the kilt himself. Said MacDonald to the departing soldiers: "Remember that when you are fighting North Koreans you are really fighting Russian Communism . . . Every time you hit the North Koreans you will be striking a blow, for freedom. In Korea you will be fighting just as if you were defending your beloved homeland and its people." Early this week, the British battalions landed in Kore...
...perhaps regrettable that the U.S. had to give such an answer to Western Europe. But the state of unpreparedness in which the U.S. Government faced urgent needs in Korea and elsewhere in Asia made it the only possible answer to give...