Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unquestionably, Marshall had inherited some of his suspicion of the Nationalists from his great friend, War Secretary Stimson (see Historical Notes). But for years Chiang Kai-shek had stood implacably in Asia against the Chinese Communists. George Marshall had caught a glimpse of the same enemy that Chiang had long faced, but he still did not recognize him as such...
...explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought he was a U.S. spy. The British had denied him a visa into troubled India in 1930, on the grounds that...
...fierce Huns and Mongols and Tatars who once swept out of central Asia seemed hardly human to their victims. Few civilized people cared how the devils on horseback might live in their faraway homelands, and little is known of the invaders today...
...Borsook has not patented MPF, and is not interested in it commercially. At present it is made only for Meals for Millions Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles which sends relief food to Europe and Asia. But the news has got around. Last week watchful Los Angeles housewives were crashing the Foundation's office, eager for a cheap substitute for high-priced meat...
...tragic result of our Government's ineptitude and lack of policy in Asia has been to allow the Soviets and their allies to make rapid progress in liquidating their problems there and completing their expansion in the Orient so as to be free to turn all their effort to the subjugation of Europe...