Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asia's suffering cities, by virtue of its peculiar sanctity, destiny and tragedy, was a focus of world drama last week. Jerusalem, the thrice holy, a Christian, Jewish and Moslem shrine, dominated the bitter struggle over Palestine. The struggle involved the British Empire, world Judaism, Pan-Islam, Russia and inevitably, as a result of its new world eminence...
...Outline of History: "The life of the [biblical] Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries." In the mechanized 20th Century, the land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia...
Christian Adventurers. When the Holy See opens a new field, it often calls on the Maryknollers as its shock troops (the latest field: Africa, opened this year and already invaded by four Maryknoll priests). Asia, and particularly China, where the men of Maryknoll have preached, doctored and taught, has been their No. 1 field. There, deep in the Japanese war zone, Maryknoll missionaries stuck to their posts, filled the files of their order (only 35 years old last April) with accounts of adventure and heroism. Many wound up in Japanese prison camps...
Engaged. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...
Conclusion & Criticism. Professor Northrop's concluding chapters, describing the culture of Asia, argue lucidly for the soundness of its basic values and their availability to the West. A reciprocal exchange is now possible, he claims...