Word: non-communist
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Communism was on the move in Asia, massively and triumphantly. Ho Chi Minh moved into Hanoi as the non-Communist forces retreated sullenly before him, bickering in a fashion which suggested that, before long, Ho might also be moving into Saigon and all of Indo-China...
...south, in the non-Communist half of Indo-China, the story was dismally different. In Saigon, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struggled against heavy odds to keep his shaky government alive. Every petty chieftain and palace politician with a few friends and a few guns seemed to be demanding a share of power. Diem had few friends and no guns...
...realities behind such a high-sounding sham. If the state needs miners, a group of youngsters alleged to have mining "talent" are rounded up and packed off to Communist training camps. Parents who protest are charged with "sabotage." Mothers whose "equality" between pregnancies consists of a heavy crop-harvesting quota are deprived of their children if they fail to meet the norms. A man who is a Communist can divorce his non-Communist wife on the ground that he cannot do his job properly...
...common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. working draft had specified "Communist aggression." But Secretary of State Dulles was persuaded to take out the word "Communist" in order to render the agreement more attractive to the four "Colombo powers" (India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon-especially the last two) who had stayed away. In a separate protocol, the U.S. made it clear that it promised to react only to Communist attacks, in order not to get mixed up in brawls between non-Communist Asian nations-for example, a fight between India and Pakistan over Kashmir...
Matters of Definition. The two non-Communist powers of Asia with the largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...