STALIN IS LOSING IN ASIA First Uncle Joe exploited Asia’s cry, “No Outsiders!” Now Uncle Sam has learned a lesson — and it may pay off February 15 1949 WILLIAM COSTELLO STALIN IS LOSING IN ASIA WILLIAM COSTELLO CBS Ajiatic Correspondent. TOKYO—In Asia six months ago the western democracies were on the verge of losing the cold war. Today, notwithstanding the apparent successes of Communist armies in China, the tide of communization is receding. There is a tentative conviction among Asiatics that the United States is at last evolving a humanistic foreign policy for Asia. There is a feeling that Harry Truman—no longer living on borrowed time in the White House —is ready to assert the Four Freedoms and his own civil rights program on a world-wide scale.