Word: tides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationship between the old industrial nations of Europe and the new industrial giant in the New World has been on the way for the last 30 years . . . Now, in 1949, the underlying maladjustment between Europe and America is emerging like a reef hidden for a time under a spring tide...
China, the most important U.S. ally in the world outside Western Europe, was gone. This chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
Refusal to recognize a Chinese Communist government, for instance, would be an inane gesture if the general Asiatic policy was to be one of drifting with the Communist tide. On the other hand, recognition would be hypocritical if the general policy was to begin active resistance to communism in Asia...
...Stem a Tide. A policy of active resistance in Asia might include...
...Star. 5. Tide...