Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American who has lived and worked in Asia during most of the past 16 years, I nominate Chief Justice Earl Warren...
Knowland has voted with the Administration on domestic matters, but has veered farther and farther away on foreign policy. His emphasis on Asia has been a wholesome influence until recently, when it has been carried beyond all bounds of practicality. Whether his foreign policy position led him to support of McCarthy is not clear-probably not even to Bill Knowland. What is clear is that he destroyed his chance of becoming mere than a nominal party leader when he deserted his own appointees on the Watkins committee. There will be no serious move to replace Knowland; he will simply continue...
...cold war economic strategy." Secretary of State Dulles is pressing for a huge expansion of U.S. investments abroad; Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen. whose department is slated to go out of business next summer, has proposed an ambitious scheme which is already being called "A Marshall Plan for Asia...
...world stand on its own feet, against poverty and Communism, is the principal objective of a World Economic Policy. Such a policy requires two simultaneous economic offensives: 1) a vigorous expansion of free world trade; 2) a drive to raise living standards in the underdeveloped lands of Asia, Latin America and Africa...
WHAT Europe needs is trade; what Asia, Latin America and Africa need is capital and know-how. Perhaps one billion people in these continents are experiencing what economists call "a revolution of expectations." A fairly simple Western notion-that poverty, disease and illiteracy are not inevitable-is spreading like fiery crosses among folk who for centuries have remained apathetic to advance. Having emancipated themselves from colonialism, millions of human beings are consumed by an aching need to pull themselves up from economic servitude. They look to "industrialization" as a magic panacea...