Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular, Mr. McGill's excellent stand on racial justice must be contrasted with his deplorable views on Vietnam. An insistent supporter of the administration's tragic policy in southeast Asia, McGill (as well as the Constitution's editorials) would make his fellow-Georgian, Dean Rusk, proud. He has often substituted ridicule for reason, and he regularly employs the notion of "reason" in a most curious fashion...
...America is not in trouble," he declared. "I suggest that many present critics some day will applaud our stand in Southeast Asia...
...Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, "is a marriage of necessity, I think, for both sides." Like most such marriages, it has its strains, and they are beginning to show up with considerable frequency. The Thais face a dilemma: they want and need U.S. help in fighting off Communism in Southeast Asia, fearing that their country may be the next victim; yet they are disturbed by the effects of the American presence in Thailand on their traditional manners and morals...
ABOUT the future course of U.S.-East Asian relations, Thomson admits to being "not as pessimistic as I was a few months ago." He feels that America's experience in Vietnam will produce a "look-before-we-leap" attitude for future initiatives in Asia...
...There may be a tendency to over-react," he said, "but I don't think a retreat into isolationism is a real danger. I do not believe that we have no interests in Asia, and the alternative to over-investment is not total withdrawal. We have to seek a systematic withdrawal and de-militarization of our commitment, and simultaneously try to introduce Soviet and Japanese influence to mix in with our presence...