Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded House of Representatives in Canberra, Prime Minister Robert Menzies proclaimed last week that Australia (pop. 7,500,000) would stand behind U.S. policy in Asia. "Armed aggression must be met by armed defensive power," said Menzies, "for this is something, and perhaps at present the only thing, that the materialist Communist dictators can and will understand . . . The time has come when we must present a common front backed by a common power...
...manganese and iron ore. In Lisbon, Nehru's designs on Goa were greeted by obstinate fury. Lisbon's Diario de Noticias angrily denounced Nehru as a misguided forerunner of Communism. "The spectacular show staged by Indian imperialism ... is nothing but an episode ... of the subjugation of Asia to the sinister disintegrating forces of Russia," it went on. "Portugal will not let this sordid spoliation, which also affects the whole Christian West, be accomplished without denouncing it to the world by raising its voice and shedding its blood...
Veteran Cinemactor Lew (All Quiet on the Western Front) Ayres, 45, whose militant pacifism led him into the noncombatant ranks of World War II's conscientious objectors, passed through Istanbul after a half-year's sampling of Asia's welter of religions. He planned, with the aid of some 75,000 feet of movie film shot during his pilgrimage, to lecture on his findings in the U.S. Of all the religions he had looked over, Ayres liked Mohammedanism best as an ideal faith for world brotherhood. Said he: "You go to pray. You go in turn...
...East. He not only has an important new post to fill but a mission to perform. As the first chancellor of Singapore's new Nanyang (South Seas) University, he will be in a position to strike a blow at Red China's campaign for the minds of Asia's non-Communist students...
FOREIGN-AID PLANNERS under FOA Director Harold Stassen are working overtime on three economic ideas for Southeast Asia. FOA wants to set up 1) a currency-clearing union backed by $1 billion in U.S. funds, to help settle payment accounts between Asiatic nations; 2) a U.S.-financed rice bank to store surplus rice against famine years; and 3) a series of U.S.-sponsored barter deals by which Asiatic countries can trade more of their raw materials for manufactured goods...