Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Field Army (about 620,000) now seems mostly stationed in North China, and especially on the strategic Shantung Peninsula. Its commander is the redoubtable Chen Yi, conqueror of Nanking and Shanghai, a warrior-poet who is now mayor of Shanghai. After V-J day, from his lair in Shantung, he kept the Nanking government cut off from its great northern cities. Rumors have reached the U.S. that Chen Yi would like to sell...
Radioactive dating, done in the U.S., proved that "No. 49" (his mummy was the 49th which the Peruvians unwrapped) died about 600 B.C., when Rome was younger than Cincinnati is now. He was buried with other leaders of his people on the desert Paracas peninsula on Peru's southern coast. For perhaps 1,000 years his descendants lived near by, spinning their delicate, brilliant textiles, making beautiful pottery and ornaments of gold...
...pragmatic level, the United states should not be irrevocably committed to war against a huge nation like China, a war fought in an out-of-the-way peninsula, with allies who are unenthusiastic about the whole business. The advantage of enabling U.N. troops to carry their fight to the Chinese mainland would be outweighed by our inability to open negotiations for a Far Eastern settlement. At best, we could obtain an armed peace with a large American army required to keep the Chinese on the other side of the Yalu River; at worst, a U.N. evacuation of Korea...
...because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries, especially those threatened by Communist aggression." ¶ Stand by to help with air and naval forces if the Communists strike in Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They are not Democrats...
...Consider giving aid to Franco Spain and perhaps provide some land troops, sea and air forces to defend the Malay Peninsula, the Suez Canal and North Africa...