Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...known world within its field of vision. The result of such an examination is rather startling. Apart from a section entitled "Indo-Iranian Languages" concerned mainly with Indian classics, there was little to indicate that the world extended beyond the United States, Europe and the extreme west of Asia. There is almost no mention of Asia, Africa, South America, Australia or the islands of the Seven Seas. Their geography, history, literature, philosophy and art received no discoverable attention. There was no attempt to study the government or the economic and social conditions, past or present, of the Far Eastern countries...
...have advanced beyond that point, but not far enough yet. Harvard and several other universities now have courses in the Chinese and Japanese languages and their literature, history and art, but there is still little to be learned in American colleges about social and economic conditions in Asia, where more than half the people of the world live. There is still almost nothing taught about southeastern Asia and modern India, and yet, apart from the obvious military and political need for more objective information about regions which have been brought close to us by modern trade and transportation, there...
Victory in the present war will leave us with many unsolved problems concerning our relations with Asia and other little understood parts of the world. We have begun to realize that gross economic inequality between nations is an unsafe foundation for world peace; we know that extreme nationalism and high barriers against free movement of goods and persons are a menace to international good feeling, but we do not know just how we can avoid these dangers without running into others. Can we secure an equilibrium by raising the less fortunate countries to something like our level of well-being...
Inside Fighting China (World in Action-United Artists) is an inspiring vision of the birth and march of a new nation. From the filmed happenings of the last eleven years in Asia, able John Grierson, head of Canada's National Film Board, has composed a documentary picture-poem showing how "old coolie-China died and out of the torment of war a great young nation arose...