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...would pull out of Korea, send no more U.S. forces overseas except to a limited cordon of Pacific and Atlantic bases, build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization" and wait the Russians out. Senator Taft would include several more bases than Hoover (e.g., North Africa, perhaps Malaya and Spain), and honor the U.S. commitment to fight if a North Atlantic ally is attacked. But he would fight by sea and air, not on land...
...Gottfried, chief of our foreign correspondents, recently finished another trip around the world. He had flown to England in October, hopped over to Frankfurt, then on to other European capitals before heading for New Delhi. From India he worked his way along the still free perimeter of Asia (Indonesia, Malaya, Indo-China, Siam, Hong Kong, Japan) and finally to the battlefield in Korea...
...Malaya, where the British hope other Commonwealth nations will take over some of Britain's heavy burden of fighting the Communists...
There are about 3,000 to 5,000 terrorists in all Malaya. It is a purely Communist movement. They get along by living in the jungle, where food is scarce and living tough, and they have to be fanatic to stick it out. The British are convinced that they get no outside help. In support of this view, the British have captured documents which indicate that the Communist high command does not consider it worthwhile to give the terrorists aid until Siam is in Communist hands. The terrorists get their guns and ammunition by shooting people who have them...
...there is a tendency to play both sides. The British position in the Chinese community was weakened by British recognition of the Mao government. The logical consequence of recognizing Communist China-if China ever acknowledges Britain's recognition-would be the establishment of Red Chinese consulates in Malaya, and that would put all Chinese residents within Communist reach. All the Britons I met in Malaya regard the recognition of Mao as a great mistake...