Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the AVC executive board decided to recommend that the fund, which now rests in a Washington bank, be used "to assist in the support of one or more Asiatic student whose studies at Harvard are intended as preparation for future constructive service in the regeneration of Asia." If the motion is approved by the members the money will be given next year to one or two Asiatic students who need...
...West will never preserve its influence in Asia by backing governments which have nothing to offer but anti-Communism. It must choose allies who can show that Western democracy has more to offer the people of Asia than the Communists. This is the lesson of the collapse in China...
...leave something sound behind," said one American officer, "will take us another ten years-if the U.S. taxpayer can stand it," Other Americans thought two or three years might be enough for a start. Whatever the period, most education officers agreed that with Communism on the march in Asia, the U.S. has little choice but to continue its schoolmaster's task in Japan...
...Communists had often used a people's nationalist feelings as an instrument of their own power drives; they are now doing so in Asia. But Tito and his followers are driven by a genuine nationalism as strong as Russia's own. World communism had been rent by differences and ideological conflicts before; most were over tactics. Titoism stabs at the very heart of Communist power and doctrine...
...indiscriminately, the U.S. might soon find itself subsidizing Communist police states hostile to itself (e.g., Yugoslavia), without real assurance that they will remain hostile to Moscow. A case in point is China's Mao Tse-tung, who is currently being sold to the U.S. as the Tito of Asia by Authors Edgar Snow, Owen Lattimore and others who until recently used to peddle the disastrous line that China's Communists were mainly "agrarian reformers...