Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week India's little Communist Party saw a chance to move its country toward the frustration and chaos the Reds have helped to create in much of postwar Asia. The Indian government acted faster than the Reds and thwarted them-for the present...
...implication was strong in Royall's talk that Asia was not very important. As one member of his staff put it: "What has the guy got who wins Asia...
...high American authority" as saying that the U.S. might not attempt to hold Japan in case of war with Russia. Almost everyone knew that the "high authority" was the Secretary of the Army; no high authority in Douglas MacArthur's command could possibly have said such a thing. Asia was swept by rumors that the U.S. was about to quit Japan. All the way Down Under, an Australian newspaper cried in a mournful headline: "ALONE IN THE PACIFIC...
Shopkeepers and restaurant men clicked their abacuses busily. The price of food climbed hourly until dinner for three at the Eighth Heaven atop the New Asia Hotel cost $33 U.S. Not all could stand the pace. Said one minor government official: "All my family has had to eat for a week is bananas...
...decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...