Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma hand (jg), I am sending you a rousing "Thadu!"*for your excellent story on Premier U Nu . . . That TIME is the first major publication to recognize the unique significance of Burma in Southeast Asia and U Nu's great potentiality as a leader of Asian opinion to counteract the shilly-shallying of Pandit Nehru is not surprising, but it is extremely gratifying. It was my privilege to adapt the Prime Minister's play [The People Win Through] as a motion picture and to produce the film in Burma . . . Its thesis, a dramatic explanation and affirmation...
...later Hong Kong press conference, free at last of his chaperon Phillips, Attlee was a little more talkative. He described with satisfaction his answer to Red Boss Mao, who had urged him to use his influence to withdraw all U.S. military aid from Asia and Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). He, in turn, had urged Mao to do what he could to curb the rampant militarism and intolerance that he had noticed in Soviet Russia, "the most heavily armed country in the world." Attlee cited this exchange as if it were proof of his standing up to the Reds, whereas...
...Force Constellation named the Dewdrop, Secretary Dulles arrived last week in Manila for the eight-power conference that would try to work out a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Although he is the most extensively traveled U.S. Secretary of State in history, Dulles had not been in the Philippines since 1950. He emerged from the plane smiling but somewhat disheveled, to receive a 19-gun salute. This, he said, would be "one of the most important international conferences of our time...
Matters of Definition. The two non-Communist powers of Asia with the largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...
...unremitting Philippine pleas for more U.S. assurances, Secretary Dulles reminded their leaders that they were the beneficiaries of special protection, such as the U.S. provides for Formosa. "The United States-Philippine defense treaty," said Dulles, "is an important link in the defense system of the free world in Asia. It should be so strong as to be unbreakable. I have been told that concern has been expressed that the United States might not come to the aid of your country in event of aggression. I wish to state in most emphatic terms that the United States will honor fully...