Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also beset with a deep psychological unease: his right to speak for Asia was in question. "Meetings between the Prime Ministers of India and China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good...
...Tibet, whose barren land Red China conquered in 1950 over Nehru's public protest. They took Nehru round to a National Minority Institute where the Communists produced students from "40 border regions." The Communists explained that the students underwent training in "political ideology," then returned to South Asia's neutral frontiers as "teachers and leaders." Commented Jawaharlal Nehru, who had come hoping for a pledge of non-interference in other nations: "Very interesting...
...late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME, Oct. 18) his Foreign Minister...
With these words, Pakistan's vigorous young (45) Premier Mohammed Ali last week announced a new policy to lure U.S. money to his struggling young (7) country. To an audience of U.S. businessmen in Manhattan, Ali sounded a dramatic new note from Asia, whose newly independent governments, still resentful of colonialism's old wrongs and jealous of their new independence, have made things tough for Western investors. Most have heavily taxed foreign businesses, limited their profits, refused to let even those profits out of the country, and demanded majority control of companies built wholly by foreign money. Western...
...gamble that the U.S. would do well to back. Pakistan is the U.S.'s most faithful friend in Southeast Asia, has defied India's displeasure to stand with the West against Communism. "I am not a neutral, personally or politically," Ali declared. "The neutral has no mind of his own. God gave us a mind, and we should use it to come to conclusions." Ali's conclusion was that the West's capital and Asia's resources could safely collaborate in a fruitful partnership involving neither a return to colonialism nor a threat...