Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Currently travelling through this country in a two month fund raising drive for the World Student Service Fund, Adisheshiah recently returned from the Balkans and prior to that took several trips for W.S.S.F. throughout Europe and Asia...
...with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned to fly back with our pilot but, luckily, chance intervened...
...Additional long-term grants running close to $1 billion to bolster China's economy; otherwise the disintegration of China might become so rapid that the U.S. would have to abandon that political beachhead in Asia...
...report's conclusions and recommendations. He believed that publication at this time would only fan the fires of U.S.-Soviet conflict. And he was afraid that publication would jeopardize congressional approval of European aid, which, in George Marshall's diplomatic strategy, has priority. In short, Asia must wait...
China, Key to Victory. All the best Russian forces could then be directed toward the Far East, where the definitive struggle would begin, in China. The Soviet Union would by then have at least 300 divisions available, further reinforced by the Chinese Communist armies. The war in Asia could be brought to an end within two years, according to Soviet estimates. And once China was conquered, a compromise peace could be offered the U.S., based on a split of the world into two zones: Europe (except Britain), the Near and Middle East, North Africa and China to the Russians...