Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joining Turkey to form the nucleus of the new organization. Now Nuri tried to reassure Nasser. Iraq, he said, "will not hesitate to use her resources for the assistance of any Arab state subjected to Israeli aggression." Macmillan seized his chance to argue that Communist frustration in Europe and Asia had forced the Reds to seek out new areas for expansion. Egypt's deal for Communist arms was the result, and, considering the situation, he could not blame Nasser, said Macmillan. One effect of Nasser's deal was to "make us feel we must support our friends even...
...Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected police informers), the Communists signaled to all Southeast Asia the fact that they were as ruthlessly opposed to the now democratic government of Malaya as they had been to colonialism...
...said a State Department official last week: "We are more worried about Singapore than any place in Southeast Asia...
Bowles brings to his book an acute awareness of the economic problems of Asia, as well as of the revolutionary forces now sweeping both Asia and Africa. He is not interested in detailed historical discussion; instead, he shows how ideas--new and old-are having a deep effect on what may be "an unparalleled change in world relationships." Unlike some Democrats, he does not minimize the "new look" in Soviet foreign affairs. He feels that Russia's new strategic smiles "may turn out to be more revolutionary and more dangerous than anything Stalin ever envisioned...
About this time the visitor will begin to realize that the supercolossal production which is Moscow today is not being staged for him but for another kind of tourist. He will be aware that he is outnumbered, perhaps a hundred to one, by visitors from Asia...