Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though Eisenhower has refused to discuss the question of UN membership for Communist China, it is likely that Churchill will continue to put this forward as a possible bargaining point for peace in Asia...
...Marshes (it would fit quite easily), the Mississippi River would trace the line of the Urals, Boston would be lost somewhere in the Siberian plains, and there would still be plenty of room to fit the North Atlantic Ocean, as far as the Azores, into the emptiness of Soviet Asia. Within this huge expanse (one-sixth of the world's inhabited land surface), there is vast diversity, and some of the natural wonders of the world. There are millions of acres of tundra, stretching across the north in frozen silence; mountains that run amuck from the Himalayas and belch...
...meeting between President Eisenhower and Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed (who was in the U.S. for medical treatment), India's Jawaharlal Nehru gravely warned the U.S. that a military pact with Pakistan would "have very far-reaching consequences in the whole structure of things in South Asia...
...when the P.W.s fought the celebrated battle for Asia's mind in the explanation tents (TIME, Oct. 26 et seq.), the Indians who were there heard the P.W.s, proud and passionate men like themselves, bitterly denounce Communism and forsake their homes rather than live with it; they heard the lies and sly half-truths of the Communist explainers. They were hurt, then angry, as the Communists snarled at them in defeat, and accused the Indian command of double-dealing: they were grim when the Communists put the P.W.s through hour-long inquisitions, and were ready to screen the P.W.s...
Other dangers to the church, as the bishops saw them: "The suspicion [in Asia and Africa] that Christianity is a creature of Western imperialism," and "the prevalence of racial discontent" in Africa, Asia...