Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there was not a country in Europe or Asia, scarcely a country in the world, where Russia's influence was not on the march. This influence was due not merely to Russia's new military might. The Russian Government, temporarily "respectable." was permanently revolutionary. Its appeal, reaching far beyond its war fronts and frontiers, was, in theory, one of the noblest in the history of human hope - nothing less than the freeing of mankind from want, fear and suffering. But to safeguard its purpose, and focus its energies, it had organized one of the most resolute...
Hitherto Russian influence had operated most effectively in the backward regions of Europe and Asia. But, as a result of World War II, Russian influence was marching into political power in Italy and France, would soon close in on Austria and a large part of Germany. There was one way in which the western nations, for whom even an economically secure life without political liberty was not worth living, could meet this challenge-by freeing themselves from want, fear and suffering while remaining free. The history of the next 20 or 30 years would report their success or failure...
...also fired a broadside at the late Shah Reza Pahlavi, who managed to get the Red Army out of Iran during an earlier occupation. Carefully uncriticized was Reza's son, young Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, who was well on the way to becoming the King Mihai of Asia's Balkans. The Russians had already hinted to him that he might be able to find a new premier...
China Student. The career that was to take him to Asia began in 1883. Florida-born, Yonkers-bred Joe Stilwell, at 18, was sent by his doctor-lawyer father to West Point because he was something of an adolescent hellion. Young Stilwell would have chosen Yale. During World War I Lieut. Colonel Stilwell served in France. Back in the U.S. at war's end, he felt a cold wave of pacifism welling up over the country, asked the Army to send him abroad, far away, anywhere that he might sometimes enjoy an occasional martial mixup...
Flying over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to blow up an enemy munition train, had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But there was something on the Major's conscience which would give him no rest...