Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the 14,600 Chinese prisoners who are due for release at Panmunjom next January? 2) Should Chinese Nationalist troops be sent to Korea if fighting is resumed? But what drew them together was a mutual fear that their U.S. ally was drawing back from the front line in Asia...
They also proclaimed their alternative to U.S. disengagement: "We are certain that victory over Communism in Asia is the key to world peace and stability . . . Our two countries therefore jointly appeal to all governments and peoples of the free countries in Asia to organize a united, anti-Communist front, and earnestly hope that our desire to achieve solidarity . . . will have the support of other freedom-loving nations, particularly . . . the United States...
...Acheson's Shoes." A deep-seated misgiving about U.S. Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal. In Hong Kong, anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about "U.S. double-faced diplomacy." One said that "Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson's shoes." Though Secretary Dulles has bulled through a special $387 million grant to bolster anti-Communist resistance in Indo-China, Frenchmen frequently grumble: Why should we fight our Communists to a finish when...
...sent its first route-breaking plane across the Pacific in 31 hours, The airline will start regular biweekly, 32-hour service (v. 30½ hours for Pan American) from Tokyo to San Francisco in February, with three Douglas DC-6Bs, eventually plans to extend its routes to Southeast Asia, Europe and South America...
...exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central Asia, Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan diener, as the Wazir's errant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis...