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Back from a 41,000-mile tour through Japan, southeast Asia and Australia, Tom Dewey was talking with the urgent terseness of a man who has seen Communist armies at first hand. His trip had convinced him of the need for "stopping them at any cost at every point...
...crisis battle of the next two to five years will be fought in the area of the Philippines, Indo-China and Indonesia, where 300 million persons live on the richest undeveloped land in the world," said Dewey. First trouble probably will come in Indo-China. If Indo-China is lost, India will be next and Japan will be deprived of any non-Communist market to feed a healthy economy...
Some Americans, he added, with a curt nod in the direction of some of his fellow Republicans, would "live within the United States and forget the miserable world . . ." Said Dewey: "I want allies, and I don't care what kind of allies they are so long as they fight on our side...
...almost certainly helped defeat Dewey in 1948 with his "Oh well, this man is a terrible candidate but I guess he is a Republican" attitude. There doesn't seem to be anyone the colonel could back wholeheartedly except, maybe, a man who goes by the name of Robert R. McCormick...
...Governor Dewey's criticism was blacked out by Singapore's press. Both the Straits-Times and the Standard (also English-language) ignored it. The red-faced editors of both explained that, because the press had not been invited to the dinner, they had jointly agreed not to print the speech, did not learn until later that it criticized them. To make amends, they offered to print Dewey's remarks if he would make them as an "interview." Refusing, Dewey said: "I'm sorry I was caught in your local quarrel...