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After a trip through the South Asia rimland, Neville became a war correspondent with the British in North Africa. Then he joined the U.S. Army as a private, became top man on several editions of Stars & Stripes around the Mediterranean, rose to lieutenant colonel by 1946. Soon afterward he went to India for a two-year hitch as TIME Bureau Chief in Delhi, where he got to know Kavalam Madhava Panikpar, Nehru's Red-appeasing ambassador to Peking. Later he headed our Buenos Aires Bureau, where he learned more about the traits of dictators and propagandists...
...Asian mainland's 16.3 million square miles, Communism controls about two-thirds, including Asia's heartland. Much of Asia's rimland is, however, nonCommunist, although under heavy pressure (see insert opposite...
Most immediately threatened rimland country is Indo-China, where a French army (150,000 men) has been unable to put down Communist Ho Chi Minh's rebels (see below). The Indo-Chinese Reds probably cannot win without direct intervention by Red China...
...naval power based on the island chain could hold Communism in check almost everywhere along Asia's rimland. Needed: U.S. pressure and guidance for firmer governments, U.S. training and equipment for better Asian armies...
...America (i.e., the U.S.) does not come primarily from what the British father of geopolitics, Sir Halford MacKinder, called "the heartland" -now, roughly, the land mass of the Soviet Union. The danger comes from an alliance between the heartland and any important political section of what Professor Spykman calls rimland (rimland is the politically and technologically developed peripheral regions of Europe and Asia). An alliance between Russia and Great Britain, or Russia and Germany, is the combination against which Professor Spykman's texts and maps attempt to prove that the U.S. could not hope to win. His advice...