Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretoria. Replacing Tom Wailes in the Union of South Africa: Henry A. Byroade, 43, West Pointer ('37), Army brigadier general at 33, with the State Department since 1949, where he served as Assistant Secretary for Near East, South Asia and Africa before his appointment to Cairo. Straight-shooting, cheerful Hank Byroade advised against the new U.S. "get tough" line with Egypt, was shifted to make clear the switch in U.S.-Nasser policy...
Southeast Asia. Pakistan, hard-hit by a rice famine, asked the U.S. to set up a food bank stocked with 1.000,000 tons of wheat and rice in Pakistani territory. From it Pakistan and other countries in the region could borrow in emergencies. For a U.S. burdened by wheat and rice surpluses, the plan was attractive if it could be carried out without disrupting Southeast Asia's touchy rice economy. At State the Pak-plan was taken "under active consideration...
...Despite the pressure from India and other Asia neutrals, Canada will stick to its policy against granting diplomatic recognition to Communist China. "I recognize the force of the arguments about the importance to Asia of having its largest country fully participating in the councils of the world," St. Laurent told Parliament. "But there are other considerations . . . and I see no reason strong enough to justify changing our policy...
...Nevertheless, Chase & Co. are convinced that there is an enormous, untapped market for rice in such lands as India, Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia, Japan, even China. While there may be a technical surplus, shipping costs from many exporting nations are so high that millions of consumers all over Asia cannot afford all the rice they need and should have. Thus, by growing rice in Australia, close to the markets, Chase hopes to chop shipping costs to a fraction of what it costs the U.S., for example, to ship rice to Japan...
Died. Dr. Gerrit J. Van Heuven Goedhart, 55, tall, intense U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees since 1950, whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight...