Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their armaments, the real ratio will be changed if, for example, A invents new weapons or if B concludes an alliance. There is still a lingering belief in total disarmament, as distinct from a reduction of armaments. Total disarmament would exclude the United States from intervention in Europe and Asia. The free countries of the Old World would be overwhelmed by the Sino-Russian millions...
...frankly, in opposition to Marshal Tito himself. "Tito did good for the country during the war and for a short time after the war," Partisan Hero Djilas told TIME. "But Tito is an old, hard-line Marxist, and Marxism as he practices it is only for backward countries in Asia and on the fringe of Russia. Yugoslavia has evolved to a position where it needs greater political freedom." Djilas calmly cited his own situation: "Even as recently as 1949, Tito would have had to order me jailed or executed. But in 1954, with it publicly known that I stand...
...people in the world gathered inside an old palace in the Indonesian resort town of Bogor last week. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia-the so-called Colombo Powers-came together to plan history's first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. Questions to be settled were: where, when, why and whom to invite...
...Prime Ministers' statement of principles, the agenda and the guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder at the harm that might be done once such a deft and ruthless professional as Red China's Chou En-lai gets to maneuvering the inexperienced, the emotional and the naive among the men who represent more than half...
Japan (pop. 87 million), the greatest industrial power in Asia, edged further last week toward friendship with the Communist empire-a step which its new Premier said was really doing the U.S. a favor. The prefectural assembly of Hokkaido, Japan's second largest island, called for "a positive interchange" between Japan, Russia and Red China. The Kobe and Osaka Chambers of Commerce formed delegations "ready to go to Mos cow and Peking." The Japanese fishing industry accepted a Communist invitation to send experts to Red China. Japan's political parties, from right to left, were moving left...