Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides its interest to Harold Stassen, the question was important because, pending its solution, no decision could be made on how to reorganize foreign-aid programs. Last week FOAdministrator Stassen returned from a 30,000-mile seven-country tour of Asia, to report on U.S. aid needs there, and the world learned about his next assignment: the President has appointed him a special White House Assistant for Disarmament...
Much of last week's comment on the Yalta papers said that they disclosed "nothing new," meaning not much meat for headline writers. The memoirs of Churchill, Stettinius. Byrnes, Leahy-and calamitous events in Europe and Asia -had long since made plain the outlines of Yalta's decisions. Nor did the Yalta documents add any sensational weapons to the arsenals of those who believe that Roosevelt was infallible or of those who think he was puppeteered at Yalta by a Communist cabal among his own staff...
...once do the records show Roosevelt arguing on behalf of China's independence, or making the point of China's need for Manchuria's industrial production. There was no hint of the long American recognition of China's independence as the key to stability in Asia. Stalin, in the imperialist tradition of the czars, remembered Port Arthur; Roosevelt forgot John Hay and the Open Door...
...Sundaram, Cultural Attacks of the Embassy of India asserted last night that the chief source of tension in Asia today is the U.S. refusal to recognize Communist China...
Captain Shih's story is part of an ardent, often eloquent answer given by Author Caldwell to those who say Formosa or the offshore islands are not really worth saving. The argument, in Caldwell's opinion, has overlooked the Captain Shihs of Asia, "the men and women who still have faith...