Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after rushing to aggression's service in North Korea, replaced Russia as North Korea's occupier. They had been able to arm and direct, with little or no cost in Chinese blood, a war in Indo-China that might well lead to the capture of all Southeast Asia by Communism. They had cowed the once great French nation into a yearning for dishonorable surrender; they had spurned the outstretched hand of once mighty Britain; they had ordered the U.S. to get out of Asia and the Pacific. At Geneva they now poke rudely at the chest...
...Russia's help to China there is calculated restraint; Moscow has a vested interest in keeping Red China dependent on Russia, but Red China's leaders have talked em phatically and often of their plans to make Red China capable of supplying itself and all of Asia. Red China has complained that it needs more from Russia than Russia is giving (money credits are only $60 million to $100 million a year), and Peking's People's Daily warned recently that Moscow will not be able "to supply us with too much more." There is ample...
...government offices, the five Prime Ministers convened. Between them they represented some 540 million human beings-more than one-fourth of mankind-and they moved soberly to their agenda. Item No. i: Nehru's peace plan for Indo-China. At once came objection. In view of South Asia's own unsettled Kashmir dispute, said Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, would it not be "perhaps a little presumptuous for us to preach peace to others?" Nehru fired right back: if Pakistan wants to discuss Kashmir, India is ready. He, Nehru, could tear Pakistan's argument "to pieces...
...four months starting last Dec. 31 these titans of Asia conferred in Peking. From the beginning little word leaked-out about the talks. Chou En-lai called the Indian delegates in for tea and gave them a list of instructions (e.g., you must not tell the Indian press what is going on). Red China haggled endlessly over details and often boycotted the talks without notice-particularly when India's truce-supervising General Thimayya made some decision in favor of the U.N. in Korea...
...Republican national chairman (TIME, March 30, 1953). ¹ For editorial writing, Boston Herald Editorial Writer Don Murray, 29. He wrote a series of editorials criticizing the Defense Department's "new look." ¶ For international reporting, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 39, who is now in Southeast Asia covering the Indo-China war. He won the prize for "frontline human-interest reporting" of the Korean...