Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's outbursts could lead not to a freer and more constructive dialogue about the direction of U.S. foreign policy but to an increasingly emotional standoff between intransigent extremes. That outcome, for all the efforts of the peacemakers, would no more advance the cause of tranquillity in Asia than it would benefit the quality of life in America...
...yellow peril" when he told a news conference two weeks ago that the U.S. was in Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college economics teacher, echoed the charge. Pundit Walter Lippmann adduced a more directly racial argument with a proposal that the U.S. "pull back from the Vietnamese mainland to continental islands inhabited by Western white men"-namely, Australia...
...would be simply to pack up and go." Added the neutralist leader: "We are grateful that you came, as you came to France in 1917-18, as you came to Europe in 1944. If it were not for your presence, Laos, and indeed all of Southeast Asia, would fall under Communist influence...
Another visiting Asian statesman, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, called for U.S. "patience, perseverance and prudence" in an effort that is designed, "in a world full of bears and dragons," to help the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their independence. If the U.S. were to withdraw too hastily from Viet Nam, he warned, internal subversion with outside support would quickly run Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore through the Communist "mincing machine." The President assured Lee that the U.S. "has the resolution and the restraint to see the struggle through." He added: "You have a phrase in your part...
...prime minister believes, the United States owes it to the Thais in particular and Southeast Asia in general to maintain a "military shield" behind which South Vietnam can build industrially...