Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning M.R.A.'s play: the use of U.S. Air Force planes to carry the germs of Moral Re-Armament to Asia is a typical example of Mr. Buchman's skulduggery because it implies U.S. Government sanction of the movement...
...most successful jobs of sabotage in the cold war took place five months ago, when an Air-India Constellation, loaded with eight Chinese Communist delegates bound for the Asia-African Conference at Bandung, exploded over the South China Sea. Peking blamed the crash on U.S. and Chinese Nationalist agents, and said the plane had been tampered with while being refueled at British Hong Kong. Although they guarded the plane to keep intruders away, British authorities acknowledged that they had neglected to check the employees (largely Chinese) who serviced the plane...
...case, it was doubtful that the offer meant peace on the Korean scene; the embattled businessmen were not bucking merely the whim of Korea's stubborn, proud old President Syngman Rhee. They were bucking a tide of nationalism that has swept through Asia. In much of the non-Communist East, many governments are putting pressure on employees of U.S. and other foreign companies to pack up and go back home...
...rise of the anti-American feeling has already ruffled some tempers in Washington. Last week Kentucky's Democratic Congressman Frank Chelf wrote to Syngman Rhee, reminding him of the U.S. economic aid to Korea. Said Chelf, referring to the anti-American feeling in Asia: "That's not biting the hand that feeds; it is chewing the arm halfway out of the socket...
Grubstake. The French stake in North Africa is prodigious. With its empire in Asia gone, the loss of its African colonies could seal the doom of French claims to being a major power. France has invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...