Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose at luncheon to speak to the 500 Washington newsmen, guests and Congressmen jammed into the National Press Club ballroom, he propped only a few notes on the lectern before him. Then, summoning the brightest of his lawyer's talents, he launched last week into his case for Asia. It was as close as a Secretary of State could come to a shirt-sleeved defense of policy...
...frequently asked," he began, " 'Has the State Department got an Asia policy?' And it seems to me that that discloses such a depth of ignorance that it is very hard to begin to deal with it. The peoples of Asia are so incredibly diverse and their problems are so incredibly diverse that how could anyone, even the most utter charlatan, believe that he had a uniform policy which would deal with all of them...
Wringing Hand. Two patterns are clear in Asia today, he said. One is "a revulsion against . . . misery and poverty as the normal condition of life"; the other is "the revulsion against foreign domination." Then he rolled with ball-bearing ease into his own theory of China's complex postwar struggles. It included the familiar State Department apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery...
Then, in our January 9 issue, the editors again scored a beat when they told what had happened at this meeting, including Harry Truman's thumbs down on the J.C.S. proposal for Formosa, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson's new program for Asia, point by point...
...Manchuria in 1931, declared that the U.S. should certainly support the Chinese Nationalists and, if necessary, provide naval protection for Formosa. He was seconded on naval support by Ohio's Senator Taft, who last September had voted against the blanket Military Assistance Program for Europe and parts of Asia...