Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They buckled briskly to business. The President had made it bitingly clear (TIME, Jan. 2) that this was the time and the hour finally to weld a coherent foreign-policy program for Asia. It fell to grey, soldierly Omar Bradley to report, in grey, soldierly words, the J.C.S. decision of the preceding week to stiffen the defense of Formosa, Nationalist China's island stronghold, with a small U.S. military mission. As General Bradley droned on, he knew he was outlining a Pentagon reversal of the State Department's flaccid policy of waiting for something to turn...
...risk-taking had been the basis for defeats of Communism from Berlin to Athens, Dean Acheson wrapped his defense in offense, moved swiftly into a series of counterproposals which carefully omitted Formosa. But at long last, they did put the Department of State on record with a program for Asia. Highlights...
...threatened by the possible Communist occupation of Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...
...year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...
...Russia represented the greatest threat to the U.S. In the last few years of the half-century the U.S. met that threat with the cold war, which served its limited purpose of checking Communist expansion in Western Europe. The cold war, however, had not stopped the Communist advance in Asia and it had not prevented the Russians from acquiring the ability to make atomic bombs...