Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urgency and import of the news from Asia has moved the editors to alter TIME'S news format for this issue. As a result, in National Affairs' accustomed place you will find an eleven-page special section called War In Asia...
...Asia is the work of the editors and writers of the Foreign News, International and National Affairs departments-and of TIME Inc.'s correspondents in the U.S. and overseas...
...doing and thinking last week about this new crisis in their lives? Was the U.S. ready for it? Would the U.S. economy be put on a war basis? What was Congress' reaction? What was the background of the conflict? These are some of the questions that War In Asia tries to answer...
...mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well might be, for reasons of U.S. prestige in Asia and U.S. leadership in the world...
...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...