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...luncheon guest-the leader of a group of Indo-Chinese Nationalist intellectuals who are still undecided about supporting French-sponsored Emperor Bao Dai-smiled down at the kids in the street. "Like most peoples of Asia," he said, "we are chronic gamblers. Except," he added thoughtfully, "in politics, where we like a sure thing...
...that with our enemies the "politics" comes first, the fighting second. We, in short, persist in thinking of political warfare as something to be practiced by rear-area pamphleteers and tolerated by the fellows doing the real fighting. However we may fare again in Europe with our chronic neglect of the political aspects of war, we cannot get by with it in Asia. That is the lesson of Korea...
...East Osborne has moved from the Philippines to Hong Kong to Formosa to Tokyo. TIME has run three of his reports from this area as by-line stories. They were: an account of the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines (July 3); an indictment of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa (July 17); a report on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s views on issues of major interest to the U.S. (July 24). In addition to weekly copy and guidance for TIME Inc.'s editors, Osborne has also sent along some incidental personal impressions...
Most Americans used to assume rather smugly that in the Philippines, where U.S. power, U.S. wealth and U.S. good will had been working for years, things are different. Recently they have discovered that the difference is not so big as they thought. The Philippines are torn by the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks. The majority of the Philippine people have only the vaguest idea of what Communism is. The fact is that the West has failed to bring millions of Filipinos an order under which they can lead reasonably secure lives. LIFE Editor John Osborne has been touring...
...half away. Even the Class of 1925, despite one world war and postwar disillusionment, could hardly have envisaged the economic collapse of 1929, the rise of totalitarianism, and a second world war. But to us of the Class of 1950, the outlook is no longer optimistic. The chronic crisis of fifty years has dissipated the warm illusions of 1900 and the warmed-over illusions of 1925. And it is a crisis which seems to be taking a second wind as it enters the century's second half...