Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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China's Red Master Mao Tse-tung entered his seventh week as honored-or harried-guest in Moscow. The outside world could reasonably guess that his long stay cloaked 1) some grandiose planning for the next wave of Communist expansion in East Asia, or 2) some ruthless bullying and tortuous haggling over the price of comradeship...
...anyone looking on from Asia, the ways of the big, cumbersome and confused U.S. democracy must have seemed last week as inscrutable as the solemn Gautama Buddha himself...
...Washington, Senate Democrats decided at a caucus to stick together behind Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though many were privately critical of his foreign policy in Asia. It was the Republicans who loudly demanded that something more decisive be done. Then last week, to the amazement of everybody, House Republicans teamed up with Southern Democrats and New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio to defeat a $60 million installment of economic aid for Korea. The vote...
...blow the Administration has just dealt to the last hope of the Chinese, we here today walk out on the Koreans, what do you think it will do to the hearts and hopes and confidence in us of the other 800 million human beings in Asia? On their decision depends more of our own future than we realize...
...when synthetic again undersells natural rubber, a big new problem will be created. Natural rubber sales to the U.S. from Southeast Asia are the biggest source of dollar revenue for the sterling area. If that source is dried up, the economies of Far Eastern countries would be imperiled. In short, said the report, the U.S. had to make sure that in looking to its own defense, it did not ruin its friends...