Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, the visiting President in Russia last week might have been American, not French. The U.S., which for 21 years has been the leader of Western Europe, is now so deeply engaged in Asia that even if Lyndon Johnson wanted to involve himself in the current European transmogrification, he would have neither the time nor the forum to do so. De Gaulle is perhaps the only Western leader with the freedom of action and position to do some good in Europe at the moment...
...Gaulle took France's defeat at the hands of Communism in Southeast Asia as stoically as possible, even turning it to his diplomatic advantage in his current Russian tour. Last week he revealed that he would visit Cambodia in September, and had dispatched a "personal message" to North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh that might very well win him an invitation to Hanoi. Still, De Gaulle can do very little about Asia. He no longer has the power base or the authority. In Europe, he has both...
...Meeting of East and West, in which he flatly described that meeting as "the major event of our time." To a U.S. deeply preoccupied with a seemingly shattered Europe, that statement two decades ago appeared vastly exaggerated. Today few would question it. The problems, needs and challenges of Asia weigh ever more heavily on the Western mind. The East-West encounter will undoubtedly dominate the rest of the 20th century...
...realized it before, Charles de Gaulle learned as much during his Russian tour last week. Admittedly, he was hoping to lay the groundwork for a European settlement. But as he flew to Soviet Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become...
...July and August of 1965, Reischauer returned to the U.S. for a brief visit to impress on Americans "that a large number of Japanese have grave fears about our intentions in Asia...