Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all the finesse of a lucky Bridge player, Harold E. Stassen has captured needed prestige for the United States in the contest for free Asia's support. Acting as Foreign Operations administrator, he promised the American dollars originally scheduled for the Indo-China campaign to members of the Columbo mutual assistance pact. These nations were meeting in Canada to appraise the Columbo plan's ability to resist Communism in the underdeveloped countries of Southern Asia. Unfortunately, Stassen behaved like the amatcur card player, forgetting that he is not in the diplomatic game alone, and that the government...
...merit. They recognize that nearly 5,000 experts have been trained since the Columbo's formation in 1950. Without the skills of these new technicians the recent agricultural and industrial progress would have been impossible. Likewise, there is little objection to Stassen's argument that Asia needs the money diverted from the Indo-China crisis more than Europe does. And now that Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines have joined the plan, U.S 'help is especially necessary for the Columbo programs...
...Asia, the U.S. has no better friend than hustling, bustling Mohammed Ali, 45, who runs the world's sixth largest nation (pop. nearly 80 million). "I'm on the side of the U.S.," he has said. "I think personally that the U.S. is doing a great job, and I want...
Columbus left his famous voyage incomplete, for in discovering America he failed to locate a quick route to India and the Orient. Americans today are trying to complete Columbus' voyage of finding a new route to the heart and mind of twentieth century Asia. And one of the largest reefs in the way of real understanding is a false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister...
Americans may well disagree with many of India's assumptions. But if a strong India is one hope for democracy throughout Asia, then the U.S. should think about joining arms instead of supplying them...