Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his 30-minute radio-television report on Asia last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did not once mention the words that commentators and headline-writers were straining to hear: Quemoy and Matsu. But while he left open the specific question of U.S. defense of these little Nationalist-held islands off Red China's coast, Dulles outlined a general principle of U.S. Asian policy of tremendous implication. The U.S. fully intends to protect the free nations of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific against Communist attack, and is well aware that it may have...
...come back from Asia greatly impressed by the spirit and the purpose of the governments and peoples with whom I had contact," said Dulles. "They want to preserve their freedom and independence. However, patriotism alone is not enough. Small nations cannot easily be self-confident when they are next door to Communist China. Its almost unlimited manpower would easily dominate, and could quickly engulf the entire area were it not restrained by the mutual-security structure which has been erected. But that structure will not hold if it be words alone. Essential ingredients are the deterrent power...
...fellowships are valued at $1,500, with one for study towards the S.T.B. and the other for graduate work beyond the Bachelor of Divinity degree. The recipient of the third award, which is worth $3,500, will be chosen from "mature men, including Christian leaders from Europe, Africa, and Asia...
...spying on them. Now, however, unpredictable Moscow is willing to let him look around some more. This summer, accompanied by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate's Government Operations Committee, Douglas will enter Russia from Iran, reconnoiter by car through six Soviet republics in central Asia...
...short form" will soon go out to WHO representatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As the doctors wound up their conference last week, Denmark's H. C. Gram thanked their Paris hosts in a speech based on the old, long list: Paris, he said, "saved us from E933" (hunger, thirst and exposure), so that in future, delegates would "instantly suppress 310" (anxiety) when called on to return to Paris. Not participating in the conference were Iron Curtain doctors, who abandoned WHO in 1949, possibly embarrassed by E985 on the list (execution...