Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause is a common cause. If China falls into the hands of Stalin, all Asia, including Japan, sooner or later will fall into his hands. The manpower and resources of Asia will be mobilized against us. The independence of the U.S. will not live a generation longer than the independence of China...
...part this was General Chang's effort to retrieve past Chinese blunders; in part it was Chang's bid for the loyalty of the Moslem Turkis in the larger struggle which seeks to prevent Sinkiang from becoming the "Poland of Asia...
Pathetic Fallacy. In the world beyond Flushing Meadow and the U.N. agenda, there was creeping crisis on a global scale-in Asia, in Europe, and in the minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange...
...ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard work, sacrifice and faith...
...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...