Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of Tom Dewey's campaign strategy will be a sustained attack on the Administration. He began the attack this week at a point where the Administration is particularly vulnerable-its policy in Asia. Speaking in his most vehement public prosecutor style at a Columbia University Law School dinner, he charged the Administration with failure in China, where "Communist world conquest is furthest advanced." Said Dewey...
...free world is now in the desperate position of a man who has gangrene in both legs-in Western Europe and in Asia. As a doctor, our Government is telling the world we have a very good cure for gangrene but we will apply it to one leg only while the gangrene in the other leg destroys the patient...
Despite the millions in Europe and Asia to whom World War II brought death,* FitzGerald's survey estimated that world population had risen by some 200,000,000 in the past decade. This was like adding "another North America" to the claimants for the world's food supply...
...thousand million of Asia, lifting up their hands for freedom, had looked to India for leadership. Now, East and West, hope is undermined and confidence destroyed. India's killings, not instigated by any alien force, are more morally burdensome upon Asia's cause than is China...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...