Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic and social uplifting of underdeveloped areas. If war is regarded as inevitable - and it is presumably hoped to win it - what do TIME-readers propose to do when the war is won and both halves of the world devastated? Occupy the whole of Communist Europe and Asia? For how long...
...British argument: all governments in power should be recognized, not matter how they gained power or how they behave. Britain hopes to encourage Mao to become a Tito. The U.S. believes that recognition will vastly increase Red China's prestige and help to fasten Communism on all of Asia...
Nehru. On China and most other Asian questions. British Commonwealth policy is heavily influenced by India's Nehru. Britons, galled for decades by U.S. pressure for a free India, now take a wry delight in Nehru's anti-Americanism. They want to build up Nehru as Asia's leader. The U.S. is convinced that Nehru misunderstands and underestimates the Communist threat. By sitting out the Korean war, he showed that his country is not prepared to defend Asia from Red aggression...
When the explanations started at Panmunjom, the Communist explainers screened some 500 P.W.s in less than four hours. Last week they took eight hours to screen 136. This was the long-expected Communist move to sabotage the explanations that were costing them so much face in Asia. The go-slow tactics imposed a new strain on the P.W.s, but they did not seem to be swayed. Of the first 136, only two chose to go back to Communism...
This marked a partial healing, which may become total, of a sore spot that has troubled southeastern Asia for four years: the presence of 7,000 to 9.000 (Burma says 12,000) Nationalist Chinese troops .and hangers-on in northern Burma. After Burmese protests in the U.N.. the General Assembly backed the Rangoon government, and an agreement was negotiated to bring out some 2,000 of the alien guests with their unit commanders. Last week's evacuees were the first installment...