Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...findings: Communist membership, since 1946, has declined steadily in Western Europe, stagnated in the Middle East, and barely held its own in Latin America and in those parts of Asia unreachable by the Red army. Wolin's estimates of Communist Party strength...
...Express, a daily devoted to his cause, Mendès published an editorial taking sharp issue with the recent NATO finding that the new Soviet activities in the Middle East and Asia pose "a new challenge to the free world." Mendès maintained that the new Soviet activity represents merely "economic expansion" of the kind Western nations practiced a century and less ago. The recent Soviet-bloc arms deals with Egypt, added Mendès, were provoked by "the unlucky Baghdad pact, which constituted for the West a blunder ..." Antoine Pinay's signature on the NATO communique...
...Soviet bloc insisted on Yugoslavia's election to the Security Council seat that has been reserved since a "gentlemen's agreement" in London ten years ago as the "East European" seat on the Council. The U.S., arguing that the agreement has run out and that Asia's growing importance entitles it to a Council seat, was joined by almost all of the Latin Americans and many Asian members in supporting the Philippines...
...many people in our country who call themselves liberals are stone silent about the Soviet concentration camps. They never find the time to utter a word of condemnation against the Communist imperialist destruction of the national independence and democratic rights of hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Asia...
Progressively thereafter, he ordered the city's nightclubs to close at 2 a.m., regulated the striptease trade to extinction, and ordered the swimming pool at the Cercle Sportif, Asia's leading parade ground for bikinis, to close through the dry season...