Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru has always envisioned India as holding the balance of power in Asia. He fears a rival to this privileged position, either one country or a bloc of countries. He has been extremely bitter about Tibet -the Chinese occupation was a Pearl Harbor to his ego. He truly fears that Pakistan will attack India if it has the slightest chance of winning. He is an India-firster to the core, and he doesn't care whether his policies benefit the rest of the world as long as they benefit India and keep her on top in Asia. Nehru truly...
...five-day gathering's opening day, the Rev. Winburn T. Thomas of Pasadena, Calif., a field representative in Indonesia for U.S. mission boards, laid it on the line for the 300-odd delegates. In Asia, he said, "colonialism is a bigger issue then Communism-and white is the color of colonialism." Almost 99% of U.S. Protestant missionaries now serving overseas, said Dr. Thomas, are white men and women. "I asked the church leaders of mid-Java if they would prefer Negro or white workers, and their decision was unanimously against our present practice of sending almost exclusively white missionaries...
...this queer idea that the British want merely to achieve a balance of power in Europe ! Surely it is because we have interests in every part of the world that we oppose the strong local action so often advocated in the U.S. You wish that our stake in Pacific Asia were heavier because "that might bring British policy down out of the Nehrunian clouds." It is just because our interests in Asia are great that we realize that only Asians who have been brought up in a democratic tradition will be able to check the Asian masses attracted...
...Japanese have the highest living standard in Asia; last week Tokyo's Ginza glittered with Christmas displays and selling was brisk. Japan is an expense account state: there is a new rich class, with fishtail Cadillacs and matched sets of Spaulding golf clubs. But the average industrial wages are low in Japan ($42 a month), and workers have almost no savings at all. The Korean war boom is spent, though prices are up 59% since 1950. For many urban families, the next paycheck is the only shield against disaster...
Lattimore accepted the Council's invitation, but advised club members to check with the Dean's Office to make certain there was no official objection. Lattimore since has written that he will speak on "The Place of Asia in American Thought." Lattimore added that "I use the word 'thought' rather than 'policy' advisedly for reasons I shall make clear...