Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kremlin propagandists have always enthusiastically endorsed the slogan "Asia for the Asians." Communism, they hoped, would fill the political vacuum left by departing European powers. Last week, however, in the five small city-states of India remaining under French control,* came a bland reversal of the party line. Local Communist leaders labeled the neighboring Indian government a "Fascist" oppressor, ordered party members to vote against union with India in plebiscites to be held this month. Instead, Communists must vote for continued French rule...
...Singapore, Malcolm MacDonald, Governor General of British South-East Asia, charged that the wave of terrorism was "part of a deliberate plan by Malayan Communists to ... capture by force the government of the country." He accused the Reds of attempting to rule "not by a majority of votes, but by a majority of guns...
Tempered Anarchy. Lady Pamela's concern for her father's future was occasioned by a historic event. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Governor General of India, was leaving his post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
They had already won much of China and Korea. Southward last week, in the southeast corner of Asia, bubbled the kind of turbulence in which the Communists found opportunity...
...other human fields, history has been made by the mavericks. Last week Manhattan's Asia Institute was showing a pair of kakemonos (long vertical paintings) by one of Japan's great 19th Century painters: Kawanabe Kyosai, who knew exactly why he was kicking over the traces...