Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces will not be parceled out among Communist-menaced nations; rather, they will be poised to strike back at attacking Communist China forces on three fronts-from Korea, Formosa, and an unspecified point in Southeast Asia...
...ally in all the world. Actually, the U.S. now has more friends abroad than any great nation has a right to expect, and more allies than any power has ever rallied in time of peace. Last week the U.S. welded together one recently assembled alliance at the eight-nation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization conference in Bangkok. This week the U.S. welcomed a great new ally: Western Germany, which by the historic Bundestag vote at Bonn formally ratified its allegiance to the Atlantic alliance (see FOREIGN NEWS). For the U.S., Bonn and Bangkok have a special meaning...
Despite Soviet temptations and threats, the representatives at Bonn voted decisively to put their trust in and join their forces (50 million people and eventually twelve divisions) with the and-Communist Western powers. At Bangkok the SEATO nations set up permanent headquarters for the defense of Southeast Asia, and U.S. policies were advanced with skill and success. For the affirmative decision at Bonn, the U.S. could congratulate itself on having a rocklike friend in Der Alte, Western Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary...
Thus, in Dulles' view, the safety of Southeast Asia depends not only on SEATO, but also on the intertwined fate of such non-SEATO countries as Japan, South Korea and Formosa. If Japan's industrial power were allied to Communist China, the free world's position in all Asia would become precarious. The chief deterrent to Chinese aggression in Southeast Asia, he went on, is the Communist fear that such an attack would bring counterattacks from South Korea on the north and Formosa in the center. When the U.S. helps maintain an army of 20 divisions...
...Phibun government, and U.S. businessmen who sell their shiny products and soft drinks in Thailand's hospitable atmosphere, also seem content to let things ramble along in their amiable Siamese way. (Since Bangkok has become a kind of focal point for U.S. activity in Southeast Asia, no American has any standing whatever in Bangkok society if he is not rumored to work...