Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total threats. Even when it enjoyed A-bomb monopoly, the U.S. failed to translate "our military superiority into a political advantage" over the Soviet bloc. Result: Communism took over in China and Czechoslovakia, won control of North Korea and North Viet Nam, is still busily at work in Southeast Asia...
...61st gathering this year around the green table. To the four Western nations, this was the moment for Zorin to reply to John Foster Dulles' proposals for aerial zones of inspection (TIME, Aug. 12). But. after complaining that the Dulles proposal failed to include all U.S. bases in Asia and Africa, Zorin returned to two of the most tired themes of Soviet propaganda: if there is to be disarmament, all NATO and Communist Warsaw Pact troops must be withdrawn from foreign soil in Europe, and all foreign military bases must be liquidated. He reiterated the Soviet insistence...
...Asia for Asians. Put simply, Diem is still taking U.S. money by the millions ($197 million last year), but less and less U.S. advice. One example of this was a decision not even to use the phrase "antiCommunism" in any speeches in Thailand. Diem remains a Roman Catholic and a staunch antiCommunist, but he has become convinced that Communism is best fought in Asian terms, and from a non-Western base. The next stop, as Diem sees it (and as he hopes to convince other Southeast Asian leaders), is the creation of such a base through a revival and reappraisal...
...practical political side, Diem believes that this goal can be best attained through bilateral defense pacts and cultural exchanges with his Southeast Asia neighbors. He wants to keep the shield of Western political protection, e.g., SEATO, U.S. military training missions, but believes they should be de-emphasized as much as possible in the public mind...
...Diplomat Adolf A. Berle's hunch is right. Communist Russia has been operating its foreign policy by localized five-year plans-1945-50 for Europe, 1950-55 for Asia, 1955 on for the Middle East. Nasser let his new Soviet equipment be chewed up too quickly, and the Eisenhower Doctrine, which followed the Suez invasion, was a definite check to Soviet Middle East ambitions. Nonetheless the Russians were on the go again last week in the Middle East. Items...