Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With what enthusiasm it could muster up, the U.S. last week announced that eight nations had agreed to get together in the Philippine summer capital of Baguio on Sept. 6. Subject: a Southeast Asia alliance...
Enmities & Dislikes. In the beginning, SEATO was billed as a bold plan to do for Asia what NATO did for Europe. But the sense of shared urgency is not the same; and non-Communist Asia is divided by ancient enmities and current dislikes. Before Asia's non-Communist powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with...
Needless Resentments. But what of the other non-Communist powers in Asia -the neutralists, the hesitant? It is another principle of old-fashioned diplomacy to win as many friends as you can to your side, and to deny as many as you can to the enemy. Asians like Burma's Premier U Nu want to be friendly with the West, but refuse to join a military pact. Rather than abandon them, or berate them, or wheedle them, the U.S. should seek a separate relationship that involves neither slight to them nor undue soliciting of their favor...
...could learn from the artful Chou Enlai. who has a talent for making minimal requests of countries he cannot order around. The only request the Communists make of the French, for instance, is not to rearm Germany; they ask the Indians only to be in favor of "Asia for the Asians." Implicit in these small and easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have significance only in domestic...
When Nanyang opens in the fall of 1955, it will have only three colleges: arts, science and business. But eventually, its founders hope it will be an intellectual center for all of free Southeast Asia. With a cosmopolitan faculty, Chancellor Lin and Sponsors Tan and Lien are agreed that the student body should be interracial. As such, they think, Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina...