ABSTRACT
In China the United States followed an ambiguous policy in the hesitant period of great power confrontation which ensued at the end of World War II and lasted until the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. The Japanese held all of Southeast Asia from mid-1942 until their defeat at the hands of the United States, with minimal assistance from other Allied powers, in August 1945. Energetic socio-economic measures on the part of the Roxas and later the Magsaysay administrations, fully supported by the United States, as well as effective counter-guerrilla warfare, brought about the end of the Huk rebellion and the arrest of Taruc by 1953–1954. The emergence of an independent communism in Yugoslavia had two major effects on the problem of reconciling the world revolutionary gospel of the Soviet Union with that nation’s overwhelming postwar priority on reestablishing its domestic position and furthering its own specifically Soviet international interests.
