Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear: Quemoy and Matsu. But while he left open the specific question of U.S. defense of these little Nationalist-held islands off Red China's coast, Dulles outlined a general principle of U.S. Asian policy of tremendous implication. The U.S. fully intends to protect the free nations of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific against Communist attack, and is well aware that it may have...
...holding up the Korean truce, the Indo-China settlement and the evacuation of the Tachen Islands as evidences of U.S. weakness. "In such ways Chinese Communist propaganda portrays the U.S. as being merely a paper tiger . . . We must always remember that the free nations of the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia will quickly lose their freedom if they think that our love of peace means peace at any price. We must, if occasion offers, make it clear that we are prepared to stand firm and, if necessary, meet hostile force with the greater force that we possess...
...weapons of precision which can utterly destroy military targets without endangering unrelated civilian centers." Any overt Chinese Communist attack probably means that the Reds "have decided on general war in Asia." In that case, the free nations would retaliate from ''the south, center and north" (i.e., from Southeast Asia, Formosa and Korea...
...anchor of strong anti-Communist policy in Asia is Japan; Japan must be helped to develop markets in Southeast Asia, becoming the source of that area's heavy machinery and other capital goods...
...Atlanta, some 200 representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a strong resolution setting next September as the target date for desegregation of schools in the Southeast (Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Term.). Added the N.A.A.C.P.: "We are not alarmed by those state governments which . . are seeking to circumvent the Supreme Court's decision [against school segregation]. These undemocratic and unconstitutional methods will fail...