Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After he became TIME'S Southeast Asia correspondent in 1950, Dowling commuted between his Singapore base and the wars in Malaya and Indo-China. His painstaking dispatches for TIME'S cover stories on France's GENERAL JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY (Sept. 24, 1951) and GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER of Malaya (Dec. 15, 1952) were models of thoughtful reporting...
...Justice Department lost another round last week in its fight against Johns Hopkins University's Owen Lattimore, accused of contributing to Communist advances in Asia by his activities and in fluence in the U.S. as a former State Department adviser on Far Eastern policy (TIME, April 3, 1950 et seq.}. The legal battle, round by round...
Like good government, the special agencies (see chart} are least conspicuous when they are working well. The International Telecommunication Union makes it possible for an American to telephone any one of 81 million telephone subscribers outside the U.S. The World Meteorological Organization gives warnings of storms in Asia, of locust pests in the Middle East; letters and parcels move freely across the continents and oceans because the Universal Postal Union divides the expenses among its 93 member nations...
...Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking...
...town and nailed the heads of his leading followers up in the Forum. Later Sulla was to spare young Julius, but warned, "One day this man may destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia, at 18, and won both honor and disgrace. For saving the life of a fellow soldier in combat, he was decorated with the cherished Civic Crown. Flawless in courage, he also showed a streak of sordid opportunism...