Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sightseer, the Prime Minister makes Baedeker look like a shy homebody. On this, his first visit to Asia, he has been especially taken by the continent's antiquities, as compared to the newness of things in Canada. Nothing seems to please him more, or wear out his aides faster, than a visit to the ruins and relics of these ancient civilizations. Not content with merely a leisurely glimpse, he wants to visit upstairs and down in all the buildings, with an archeologist at his side to answer a barrage of questions. At Agra, India, the other day, he spent...
...result of McCarthy's headline-grabbing extremes, said Flanders, the U.S. is being diverted from far more serious, more dangerous problems. One by one, Flanders twanged off the names of world trouble spots: Korea, Indo-China, sick France and dissension-torn Italy, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with its spreading infection of Communism. "In very truth," said Flanders, "the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong warfare between God and the Devil for the souls of men. In this battle of the agelong war, what is the part...
...this was a substantial innovation. Chester Bowles, former ambassador to India, wrote, "the doctrine of 'instant retaliation' ... appears to be a far reaching shift in our foreign policy." But the Democrats were disturbed, and Bowles went on to ask some troubling questions. "If we place our principle reliance in Asia upon a method of retaliation which carries with it what are probably unacceptable risks, and at the same time reduce our capacity for more limited, local responses, as the new policy seems to do, will we not in fact invite, rather than deter local aggression in Asia?... How does...
Turning to the problems in Asia, Stevenson said that the U.S. would be as "deeply concerned with these lands if Marx, Lenin, and Stalin had never lived. For poverty, oppression and ignorance have always been our concern...
Stevenson called again for understanding of a foreign people, suggesting that our alliance with the colonial powers of the West have made the East suspect our professed devotion to freedom as hypocritical. He called on America to "avoid the sins of self-righteousness and self-delusion in Asia. Our power," he concluded, "is not absolute nor is our faith infallible...