Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki and Washington. In these news centers our reporters talked to all of the experts whose business it is to know the Russians, and who have the best sources of information on Russia. With this information for guidance, the editors have tried to analyze the crisis in Asia from the Kremlin's viewpoint. This, incidentally, is the eighth time that Stalin has been on TIME'S cover...
...enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...
...unfortunate name for a force in a fight where the enemy accused the U.S. of trying to fasten the imperialist yoke on Asia, but straight out of the Navy's alphabet. "Yoke" is Navy...
Blind & Stubborn. On Formosa, as in every other part of Asia, U.S. pronouncements are read with extraordinary attention ; they eventually reach even the illiterate masses. And the State Department has blindly and stubbornly insisted on the maximum distribution of official American statements that were bound to undermine the Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host...
...State Department and Defense Department, long blind to the changes in Asia, and unwilling in any case to worry about them, had decided that Formosa, too, was "strategically unrewarding." And the U.S. had obligingly made public this decision, thus undermining the Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...