Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reeling from the blow of the Atlantic Treaty. No matter how loudly party leaders shouted, the Russians had backed down in Berlin. Some observers believed that this was the big break-that Russia was in fact suing for a settlement in Europe to devote all her energies to the Red drive in Asia...
When the serious business was over, Moscow cavorted merrily in the brilliant sunshine, beside lakes of flowers and tremendous red-festooned portraits of Soviet leaders. And the music was grand...
...British have a peculiar fondness and talent. It satisfied everybody, including old Imperialist Winston Churchill, who ringingly spoke of "new harmonies." The only disappointed party was the Communists, who knew that an India out of the Commonwealth's charmed circle might fall to Asia's rising Red tide. Sputtered London's Daily Worker: "Unprincipled agreement . . . British imperialism has always proved adaptable in finding a formula which can suit its aims...
Most Americans still do not realize the scope of MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home; while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
...Dodge mission revealed some of Washington's long-range thinking-a Marshall plan for Asia in which Japan might serve as the industrial workshop for a goods-hungry continent. Japanese production might help wean Asia from Red domination. State's blueprint also called for a simplified occupation, a garrison of troops for police duty only and advisory economic experts...