Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Asia . . . need to be liberated from hunger, disease and ignorance. We must combat Communism by raising the standard of living of these people, and this means that these countries must be industrialized. Industrialization depends upon capital, technical assistance, and trade. In other words, American capital must be invested, technical assistance must be given, and our tariff rates must be lowered...
...these projects failed to exchange ideas with each other. Valuable techniques of a successful "team" to India were often unavailable for later exchanges, and it was not rare for two or three student groups to converge on New Delhi at once. To bring together organizations with student activities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Ford Foundation and other groups recently called a conference at the Experiment in International Living, at Putney, Vermont...
...Project India" for three summers has sent goodwill missions to Indian universities, and California at Berkeley followed with a more hurried trip to Pakistan, India, and Ceylon. The American Friends Service Committee has also sponsored travel, although most of the attendance at its work camps and seminars in Asia was composed of Asians from nearby countries...
...example of such assistance, the University of California sent a group of students to Indonesia to develop an affiliation with the University of Indonesia. Students at California are now attempting to raise half the money for a new $50,000 student center near Jakarta, and courses about South East Asia have already appeared in California's curriculum...
...Parliament. "Admissions by the present Soviet leaders that Yugoslavia was wrongly treated," he said, had convinced him that "there has been a change in Russia . . . Tensions have now subsided." Tito tenaciously discoursed upon Yugoslavia's Socialism in heavily accented English, but when he left the subject of Asia behind, the Indian M.P.s lost interest and began chattering to one another. Tito also talked alone with Nehru for ten hours. The gist of his message: Malenkov is less ambitious than Stalin and lacks Stalin's iron will; Malenkov considers that Stalin committed ideological errors in his last years...