Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will bring reports from world-known figures at home and abroad on the state of Europe and Asia after the winter of interim aid-on the progress of the Marshall Plan-and on the future of Freedom around the world. More later...
Throughout Asia, men contemplated a new year of fierce breezes. India charged Pakistan with a threat to world peace (see Col. 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek predicted that the Chinese Communists would be beaten by the end of the year; Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung hooted that 1948 would bring still more gains for the Reds. A Shanghai editorial writer said humbly: "We can only pray...
...came last week from. Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from the direct or indirect effects of food shortage...
...Fantastic Accusation." The story started with China, and a familiar warlord's defense. Japan's actions, said Tojo, were motivated chiefly by the threat of Chinese Communism. "This was all done with a view to saving East Asia from the danger of bolshevization and at the same time to make herself a barrier against world bolshevization. The present condition of the world two years after the end of World War II eloquently tells how important these barriers were...
...government fighters knew they had a tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that...