Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Retreat in the Orient...
...British wanted any more positive proof of the contempt in which they are held at the present time by the Chinese Communists, the shooting of the airliner over the China Sea [TIME, Aug. 2] is it . . . To those of us who have watched the cowardly retreat of the great powers in the Orient during the past seven years, this shooting came as no surprise immediately after the Geneva Conference . . . If the British do not retaliate in kind next time they are attacked, there will be many more shootings . . . I have seen the show in China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines...
...YORK POST, most partisan Fair-Deal paper in the East, says the Democratic maneuver on the antisubversion bill was "a retreat without honor...
...Retreat. A month ago, as he had done for many summers, he and his wife Francesca moved into their summer chalet near the tiny, Alpine hamlet of Sella. At 73, De Gasperi was worn and haggard. His heart was tired. He was ordered to rest, but he continued anxiously to write and phone Christian Democratic leaders in Rome. He was increasingly distressed by France's attitude toward the EDC he had helped create. One day last week he had a slight heart attack...
...Viet Minh, has not been seen alive by any non-Communist for more than three years and there have been many rumors (some for a time accepted by U.S. intelligence) that he was seriously ill or dead. Last week he proved to be alive and kicking. From a mysterious retreat somewhere in Communist territory, he came to Thainguyen, 40 miles from Hanoi, and lunched with Canadian, Indian and Polish members of the armistice commission. The Indian representative, Subimal Dutt, reported himself very favorably impressed...