Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is not the slightest hint of documentation over my signature in the entire Defense Department report which even remotely suggests my support of these territorial concessions which so adversely altered the course of future events in Asia; or that after my initial recommendation in 1941 I advocated prior to Yalta that Russia enter the Pacific war. To hold the contrary is to prevaricate the truth and the record...
...loped into Manhattan, accepted from tireless Internationalist Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Association for the United Nations an award for "his unique accomplishments in aiding the children of the world." Volunteering as a U.N. "ambassador at large" last year, Kaye spent two months hopping some 40,000 miles about Asia, worked and entertained mightily for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. The ceremony marked the prelude to nationwide observance (except in Utah-TIME, Oct. 17) of United Nations...
...Pearson: "We might agree to leave NATO if you would agree to leave a lot of other things we'd like you to leave." The next day Pearson flew on toward Singapore, where he and other Colombo Plan representatives will try to work out ways to bulwark Southern Asia against the spread of Communism...
...Tokyo in 12 hr. 45 min. (against 25 hr.). The combination of high speeds and big loads will probably bring lower fares. Boeing will begin deliveries of its planes in December 1958, and Pan American hopes to put them into service soon afterward on its runs to Europe, Asia and South America. Douglas will begin deliveries one year later...
...Some observers guess that he longs for untroubled retirement. Others think he has lost his grip, may be forced out. A less wishful and probably sounder conjecture is that Ho has gone back to his old trick of standing behind the lines and quarterbacking Communist strategy for all Southeast Asia. Old revolutionaries may die, but with revolution to be done they do not just fade away. In Red eyes, there is revolution to be done in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya, and across the Malacca Strait in Indonesia...