Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as our basic concepts in these respects were unclear, our military leaders could not be selective in building our military power . . . We had to be ready to fight in the Arctic and in the tropics, in Asia, in the Near East and in Europe, by sea, by land and by air, by old weapons and by new weapons...
China. The U.S. must not even talk about recognizing Red China. One reason: such talk would discourage 13 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia from their present strong anti-Communist drift...
...Ford Foundation Board of Overseas Training and Research is also offering fellowships for graduate study in fields of Asia, the Near and Middle East, and in the Soviet and East European areas. Graduate students and graduating seniors in any department whose specific fields of study deal with these areas are eligible...
...occupational badges of a veteran foreign correspondent is his bulging passport. Recently one such correspondent arrived in New York with a worn, battered old passport which had swollen to 140 pages. He is John Graham Dowling, TIME'S correspondent in Southeast Asia, who had just flown in from Singapore with his wife and eight-month...
...outbreak of the Korean war, Dowling was back reporting in Chicago, and, says he, "I began to get itchy feet." Dowling's itch coincided with a TIME decision to open a Southeast Asia bureau, and he was hired for that assignment. Setting up a news bureau out there, says Dowling, "was just a matter of finding a place to hang your hat. I picked Singapore principally because the cable facilities were good." As it turned out, Singapore was literally not much more than a place to hang the Dowling hat. "I averaged only about two weeks out of every...