Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most likely quid pro quos: ¶In return for the extension of Russia's stay in Manchuria, support for Chinese Communist infiltration inSoutheast Asia. ¶ In return for Soviet credits, more food and perhaps a labor force from China to Russia. ¶In return for Soviet military advice and equipment, the installation of Russian watchdogs in the Chinese army and government...
...best these were guesses. It was no guess that, on the face of the Sino-Soviet pact, world Communism could cheer another notable diplomatic and propaganda triumph in Asia. On the platform of Moscow's Yaroslav station just before he took the train back to Peking, China's Mao made a not unreasonable prediction: "This [treaty] will inevitably influence not only the flourishing of the great powers, China and the Soviet Union, but also the future of all mankind...
...value of an anti-Communist pact among southeast Asiatic countries, agreed they should not officially propose one, hoped unofficially that the Asiatics would write one themselves. They surveyed the prospect for U.S. economic and military aid to Indo-China, Thailand and Burma, the soft underbelly of non-Communist Asia. If they came to any solid conclusion, the same was locked tightly in Phil Jessup's briefcase for the slow return jaunt, via Europe, to Washington...
...indecisiveness of U.S. diplomacy in the face of the vast crisis in Asia was all too apparent to the Americans' Siamese hosts. Jessup and Butterworth called on Siam's Premier Phibun Song-gram (see cut), and had some refreshments, but they seemed to have made no firm impression that the U.S. had advanced beyond the scouting-and-thinking stage in Southeast Asia. No one seemed to talk of action. While U.S. diplomats dallied, the Bangkok government pointedly let it be known that it would not yet follow the U.S.-British lead in recognizing the French-sponsored...
...years later Greece and Turkey were at war in Asia Minor. Having worked hard at correspondence courses, Godfrey finally had to choose between waiting for an appointment to the Naval Academy or shipping as radioman third class on a destroyer flotilla heading for the Mediterranean. "I had missed World War I," he says, "and I wasn't going to miss this...