Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME OUT OF HAND: REVOLUTION AND REACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA by Robert Shaplen. 465 pages. Harper...
...most Americans, depressed and confused by what is already the longest, most complicated war in the nation's history, the words Southeast Asia have come to mean just one thing: Viet Nam. Yet in the long run, the political and economic development of the area's other nations, with their 250 million people, may prove more important to the stability of all Asia-and the world-than the bloody ground where the fighting now rages. Asserting this point, Robert Shaplen, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia, ventures beyond Viet Nam to invoke the longer perspectives...
Outside Powers. What Shaplen finds, not surprisingly, is trepidation, partly a reflection of local uncertainty over the U.S. role in Southeast Asia after a Viet Nam settlement. But he also discovers encouraging developments that look to the inevitable day when, he feels, both the U.S. and China will play a smaller role in Southeast Asia. Born partly from that realization is a growing awareness among Asian nations of the need to look to their own resources and cultivate independence. Strongly non-Communist countries show symptoms of being able to adjust to Communism without becoming politically subverted or emotionally unstrung. Singapore...
...years, he is cautious, measured in his judgments, rarely hortatory. He does make hard and clear, however, what he regards as a notable danger. Rudely stated, it is that the U.S., which will probably fail to gain the exact ends it seeks in Viet Nam, may pull out of Asia entirely after...
...urge to do so is great, and will grow greater still. Such a policy is encouraged by fatigue and political recrimination at home after a war half lost. While urging that America's future role in Southeast Asia be reduced, Shaplen suggests that it will nonetheless be necessary. "If we become too preoccupied with our mea culpas, as we have shown an alarming tendency to do," he concludes, "we will do further injury to ourselves and probably to others...