Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning the American people that they must be prepared "to carry - perhaps for a long, long time - the burden of a confusing and costly war," Johnson said somberly that "we have a long way to journey" before the "shadow that hangs over all of Asia tonight will will begin to recede." Well, you say, 'When will that day come?' And I'm sorry to say I cannot tell you. Only the men in Hanoi can give you that answer. We are fighting a war of determination. It may last a long time." Addressing Hanoi, he declared: "Victory...
Opening Minds. Johnson launched into a lengthy discussion of U.S. responsibility as a "Pacific power" in general and of American relations with Red China specifically. He said that the "essential for peace in Asia, which may seem the most difficult of all" will be to bring about a "reconciliation between nations that now call themselves enemies. A peaceful mainland China is central to a peaceful Asia. A hostile China must be discouraged from aggression. A misguided China must be encouraged toward understanding of the outside and toward policies of peaceful cooperation." Repeating the containment-without-isolation thesis expounded...
...Japanese in World War II and the Communists in Malaya. Their credo: avoid trails, avoid villages, avoid resupply; slide into the jungle like a snake and hide, then terrorize the enemy at will. "Fortunately, we've trained and equipped ourselves for such a war as this in Southeast Asia for years," says Brigadier O. D. Jackson, commander of the First Australian Task Force in Viet Nam. Whereas U.S. commanders resupply their units every other day in the field, the Aussies slide into "the deep green" prepared to go it alone for a week at a time-and manage...
...celebrated with champagne receptions. To the French Ambassador's garden party in Peking came Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Peking had already accused the Russians of collusion with Washington for a settlement in Europe that would free U.S. troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples of the world unite and wage a common struggle, the U.S. imperialist plan for aggression and war can be foiled...
...week conference, now in its fourth day, is the first ecumenical meeting of this kind at which most of the participants are laymen. It is also the first such meeting at which there are more delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America than from North American and Western Europe...