Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Already the Communists had paid for their attack on Korea; when Truman said "I have ordered the Seventh Fleet" to Formosa, he denied Communism a rich strategic prize that had been in its grasp. The fact that Douglas MacArthur, who has long understood the Communist intentions in Asia, was defending Korea meant that the Reds would not get that country cheaply...
Taft and Wherry announced that they would stand behind the President, but they had a few rocks in their hands when they said it, and quickly whizzed them off at Secretary of State Dean Acheson's elegant top hat. The Communist attack in Korea might well not have taken place, argued Taft, if the U.S. had given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September...
...week's big news seemed to be concentrated in Korea. But behind Korea lay bigger news: what was happening in the whole of Asia. The sudden Communist attack on the relatively small and weak point of U.S. influence in the Far East faced the U.S. with a challenge which its Government had doggedly ignored and evaded. The challenge was: how to keep the people of Asia from falling to Communism...
...merely a matter of the poverty which beset Asia (and which, in the minds of some well-meaning Americans, could be cured by "land reform"); nor was it merely a matter of political unrest caused by war and undigested Western ideas; nor merely of outright Communist military attack. It was all these things together, plus the simple, brutal fact that Asia was in chaos. Millions in Asia are not only not sure where the next day's bowl of rice is coming from they cannot be reasonably sure whether they will see a next...
Died. Ella Florence Underwood, 100, last surviving member of the Oneida Community, a financially successful communal settlement (Oneida Silver) which practiced both promiscuity within its own group and stirpiculture; of a heart attack; near Oneida...