Word: indo-china
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...indefinable look a house wears when its people are not in want. It was Eisenhower's job to show what was beneath this prosperity, and beyond it. He had to show that the larder was not so full as it seemed, and that distant places like Korea or Indo-China were threatening the safety of the safest, newest farmhouse roof. He kept hammering away at high taxes, inflation, high prices, the explosive uncertainties and frustrating deadlock of the Korean...
...grievances against French colonial rule in North Africa be aired in the U.N.; 2) cutting 20% of 1953 military aid to France: "Without doubt the Marshall Plan helped us, and we have often cited the benefits with gratitude [the Rhone dam was one], but unfortunately defense of freedom in Indo-China has already cost us just about double what we have received . . ."; 3) ignoring France's objections to German rearmament: "Although we have no hatred for those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree not to forget them, certain apologies...
What sort of policy should this be? The GOP majority has two suggestions. One is to abandon Asia, quarantine it from US troops, and supply only what cash and armaments a comfortably low tax rate can make available. This means leaving Korea, lessening assistance to the French in Indo-China and the British in Malaya, and adopting the Asians against Asians doctrine promulgated recently by General Eisenhower. It means a refusal to share in the risks of collective security, even though demanding anti-communism of the countries America would abandon...
Five non-Communist countries knocked at U.N.'s door last week, hoping to get in. The five: Libya, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos (the last three are more or less autonomous states formed from the former French colony of Indo-China). Ten of eleven Security Council members voted to admit all five. But Russia's Jacob Malik blackballed them by casting Soviet vetoes, Nos. 51 to 55 incl...
...Asiatic periphery the Kremlin has made captive China and Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Northern Korea . . . the northern half of Indo-China . . . It has added 500 million people to its arsenal of manpower. Most of these peoples of the Far East have been our friends . . . Through a dismal decade of false starts, fractional measures, loud policies and faint deeds, we have lost them. Again I can hear you say the conscience of America shall never be free until these peoples have opportunity to choose their own path...