Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America has too often tried to dictate blunt and final solutions to the problems of free Asia. In a period of "competitive coexistence," changing events demand a foreign policy that is flexible in application as well as firm in its goal--a free and democratic Far East. President Eisenhower last week indicated a flexible approach that is particularly reassuring...
...great period of Communist expansion in Europe and Asia took place while we had an atomic monopoly. China was bitten off before the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb...
...group, John B. Butcher '57, said that "there will probably be opposition to the program, although I think our organization is behind the idea." Butcher is chairman pro-tem for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was organized last year by 20 University pacifists to protest "colonial intervention in Asia...
Overrating the importance of the FOA's tentative schedule is difficult. Designating Asia as the critical area for communism, the FOA proposes increased expenditures from Pakistan to Japan, with greatest emphasis on Indo-China. The FOA would administer nearly 80 percent of all foreign aid funds in that area, incorporating an Asian equivalent of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. The program would make it easier for the assisted nations to develop their trade and mutual aid. Unfortunately, the insecure existence of the FOA casts a sad shadow on the future of foreign aid programs...
...collection, has more than 1,350,000 plant specimens from all over the world. It includes the New England Botany Club collection of all New England Botany Club collection of all New England plants. Most of the non-horticultural specimens brought in from the Arnold Arboretum are from Southeastern Asia. The Orchid collection of Oakes Ames, and fossil plant collection of the Botannical Museum are also now housed in the Herbarium...