Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal for a fund for long-term aid is also important as the first concrete U.S. reaction to the promises made by the Soviet leaders in Africa and Asia. From Burma, India, and Afghanistan in the East, to Egypt and Liberia in the West, the Soviets have tried to sell the notion that they can best provide the capital and technicians and equipment needed by less developed nations. It is pointless to proclaim that Asians must beware Soviets bearing gifts, for the gifts look pretty delectable to free, but underveloped countries. The only answer is for the United States...
Carroll will show a movie about his activities in Africa, Asia, and South America entitled "Capturing Animals around the World...
...Khrushchev, Bulganin and Mikoyan to Belgrade last spring. It aims as aggressively as ever at subjecting the world to Communism, but without Stalin's rigid preachments about the "inevitability" of violence: his successors are out to make Communists look more peaceful and disarming to the neutrals of Asia and the uncommitted Arab world. (India's Nehru has already pronounced Moscow's changes "welcomed in every way.") By their acceptance of peaceful change, moreover, Khrushchev & Co. hope to make time with Socialists in France and Italy. They may succeed with a new generation, but older Socialists are likely...
...isolated, retreating minority. To the Asian nations they offer the comradeship of backwardness, the fraternity of poverty, the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves, and sympathetic stirring of old resentments against their colonial pasts. Against this new campaign, a vast outpouring of Western dollars to Asia will not be enough. The free world now confronts an old enemy in a new guise and a new place, and it will have to find new responses...
Breaking the Will. Something of deep significance to China, to Asia and all the world occurred in the last six months of 1955. The crescendo of terror in 1951 and the skillfully timed and carefully calculated applications of terror since had their cumulative effect. One of the most enduring and resilient of peoples apparently gave up hope. Whatever those hopes had been-an internal breakdown, a return of the Formosa Nationalists, or simply, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, "hope from without"-six years of unremitting terror had finally crushed them. On this important fact most...