Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...chest. Visiting the impoverished, Red-infiltrated northeast of Thailand, Humphrey told Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman: "You have some fine country here. It looks like Minnesota." His main aim in Bangkok was to assure the Thai government that the Administration's new emphasis on social goals in Southeast Asia portended no diminution of the military effort to repel Communist aggression. The joint communique issued by Humphrey and Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn reaffirmed the "urgent necessity" of strengthening Thailand's U.S.-equipped armed forces...
...people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development, one of Washington's pet pilot projects for an Asia at peace. "If we only had more time," sighed Humphrey at one point, "boy, I could have a ball." But the White House kept piling on new instructions and added assignments. And Jack Valenti, President Johnson's assistant, was along to fill out a report card for the boss...
Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who lives in Maryland when Congress is in session, protested that half of the population of Hawaii would be considered "impure" in the eyes of Maryland. The law, he added, would make "interesting reading in many parts of Southeast Asia where we talk about democracy...
...main topic of speculation in the West, and were frequently invoked at last week's hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see THE NATION). About to set off its third nuclear blast, supported by a huge army that could bring full-scale war to Southeast Asia if it marched south, Red China is certainly what Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently called it: "a threat of greatest concern to the U.S." The threat is the more bother some because China's very frustrations make its reactions so odd and unpredictable. But, while the West worries about China, China...