Word: indo-china
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This week, his next European step unplotted. Secretary of State Dulles emplaned for the Philippines. At the Manila conference the U.S. will seek an agreement of some Southeast Asian nations for a collective pact against Communist aggression. This idea was generated as a reaction to the Indo-China collapse. But the defects of any possible Asian pact advertise the weakness of the anti-Communist position more than its strength (see FOREIGN NEWS). India, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia will not go to Manila. South Korea and the Chinese National ists of Formosa, which have thoroughly anti-Communist governments and fighting forces...
...same vein as Stump's statement was the U.S. order withdrawing four of the six divisions guarding the containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...
...important to Americans, a few thousand of whom have fought there, most of whom know it only remotely through a haze of symbols-Terry and the Pirates, The Road to Mandalay, Errol Flynn striding triumphant down the Burma Road. By the light of the flames that roared up over Indo-China, the dark and distant land of Burma has become visible. Can Burma defend its 1,000-mile Red China frontier by itself? Can Burma be saved? Will it get help-or accept...
...civil war. U Nu is a man of infinite modesty and quietness; he likes to drive out, on afternoons when he can get free, to a "meditation house" built on stilts, a tall man's height from the ground. U Nu must now meditate upon the fate of Indo-China, and he does not shrink from its implication: "Most of the countries of Southeast Asia are like this house," U Nu tells his visitors. "As the wind blows, they go to and fro like this."UNu flaps his hands...
...this mean that Chou Enlai, cocky after his victory in Indo-China, was now ready to attack across the Formosa Strait, even at the risk of taking on the U.S. Navy? His words clearly implied that; but U.S. intelligence has reported no unusual military buildup along the China coast during the past six months...