Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major bases strung around the periphery of Communist Europe and Asia...
Tiger was folded into Air Force slang by U.S. pilots in Korea; in Asia, the tiger is an age-old symbol of ferocity...
Pearson, who is on record as favoring ultimate recognition of Red China, laid down-for this year, at any rate-a firmer line on Asiatic Communism: "We must not compromise with Communist military aggression in Asia or in any other place . . . That does not mean that we should assume that every anticolonial, nationalist or revolutionary movement in Asia is Russian Communist in origin or direction, any more than we should assume that, with patience and sympathy, every Asian Communist leader can be turned into a Tito ... I suggest that we must . . . try to convince the Asian people that . . . our kind...
Trawlers & Antibiotics. For the Commonwealth as a whole, the biggest decision was to shift from intense concentration on the dollar market, to a wider emphasis on exports to all currency markets in both Europe and Asia...
However, I must say, that I feel at unease to note the relatively small emphasis that seems to be put by the authorities on studying Asia, more particularly India, the growing importance of which on the International scene cannot be over-emphasized. It seems a pity that students coming to Harvard for their education, should not have the opportunity of studying the present day socio-economic and cultural patterns of Indian life, so that they would be better equipped to follow the Indian train of thought and line of reasoning, both Internationally and in India...