Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with the help of Communist rats as Senator in 1948-will provide both a hotbed for Red propaganda, and a terrible undertone of anti-American sentiment in a continent that is more important to U.S. defense than either Europe or Asia . . . And if such a policy should eventually lead you to lose Latin America, as you lost China, the enemy will not be facing Hong Kong, but the straits of Florida...
...rejection of Communism by the overseas Chinese, Nixon found, is "one of the most spectacular developments" in Asia. "What are the reasons?" he asked himself, and answered: "I talked to a farmer ... He told me how he, his wife and two small children had walked for a hundred miles through the mainland of China until they arrived at the [Hong Kong] border . . . The reason was that his only brother was blind . . . He couldn't produce as much as the Communists required . . . The Communists took him away and shot...
...National Airport, the Vice President stepped from "Speckled Beauty," his name for the Air Force Constellation which had become his home and his only place of refuge from enthusiastic Asians. He fondly patted its shiny fuselage three times, as if it were a trusty steed. Asia, the returning traveler summed up: "has a desperate need and yearning for peace...
Last week, from the doings in a Manhattan courtroom, Americans learned that the nation is nursing something far worse than the professional beggars of Europe and Asia. Millions of dollars are being siphoned away from charitable donations annually by professional promoters and racketeers. Even some of the worthiest causes pay fund-raisers up to 85% out of every donated dollar...
Dynamic young M.M. (for Madathil-parampil Mammen) Thomas, an Indian youth leader now studying at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, warned his fellow Christians against linking Christianity in Asia with Western civilization...