Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western observers see the new Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...
Friendship & Pride. Kim saw his chance with the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev. Peking's resources were too thinly spread for Kim to count on Chinese help, but Russia's new leaders wanted to revive friendships in Asia that Khrushchev had ended. Pyongyang publications soon began soft-pedaling attacks on Moscow's "revisionism," and when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply...
...those who believe in the need for good men to resist the excesses of bad, this is a satisfying book. For those who see the Communists in Southeast Asia as simple, guileless and misled peasants, the descriptions of Laotian guards spitting into a cup of cold rice before giving it to the prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos...
Little Society. Wolfkill is a member of that little society of men who, outside military service and each in his own way, have been fighting Communism in Asia for years. Some are missionaries, some are aid men, some are businessmen, some are doctors, some are teachers, some, like Wolfkill, are newsmen...
...Jerry A. Rose, to whom Wolfkill told his story and who wrote this book between other assignments in Asia. Rose went to South Viet Nam in 1959 at the age of 25 to teach English at the University of Hue, stayed on to become a part-time correspondent for TIME and LIFE, a contributing editor for the Saturday Evening Post and finally, a special representative to the office of the Prime Minister. He and Wolfkill were close friends...