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Word: asia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...democracy [TIME, April 20]. You simply do not possess a true love for democracy and brush aside the mass propulsion of Tibetan people into slavery by casually and apathetically remarking, "We do not wish to aggravate the situation." There is no need for Communism to force itself into Asia, for with the sympathetic indifference of men such as Nehru, Asia will be Communist without a shot being fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Tibetan events, he said, Pakistan and India must join together for the defense of the subcontinent. A columnist in the respected Times of India called for a summit meeting between Ayub and Nehru to arrange an Indo-Pakistan alliance that "would constitute a powerful factor making for stability in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Significant Shift | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Handing Over | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten by the ruined populace of Asia Minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rome's Bogeyman | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Workable Test Ban | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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