Word: indo-china
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With all the finesse of a lucky Bridge player, Harold E. Stassen has captured needed prestige for the United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government...
...that nearly 5,000 experts have been trained since the Columbo's formation in 1950. Without the skills of these new technicians the recent agricultural and industrial progress would have been impossible. Likewise, there is little objection to Stassen's argument that Asia needs the money diverted from the Indo-China crisis more than Europe does. And now that Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines have joined the plan, U.S 'help is especially necessary for the Columbo programs...
...world scene, the President recalled, war raged in Indo-China as well as in Korea. Iran, with 60% of the world's known petroleum reserves, lay in deadly danger. Suez and Trieste were constant threats to peace. Even in the Americas, Communists were ready to take over Guatemala. All these were problems handed over to the Republican Administration...
...truce in Indo-China, however salutary on other grounds, has not helped France's financial position in the slightest. America had already been bearing the full costs of the war. On the other hand, a sharp cut in military expenses at home is only possible if one has blind faith in "peaceful coexistence" and on the Kremlin's good will...
...made a career by attaching himself to Mons and traveling upward with him. "This is an affair of crypto- Communism," said the police. "They knew perfectly well where their information was going. They wanted to give the opposition information for their campaign to stop the war in Indo-China and ban the atom bomb...