Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict of interest." It is not essentially a struggle for commercial or other material advantages nor is it a struggle for "power" as such. In the Far East, neither nation has a big economic stake. In fact, the U.S. could wish the British stake in Pacific Asia were heavier; that might bring British policy down out of the Nehrunian clouds. British suspicion to the contrary, the U.S. Government has no desire to replace British Middle East commercial interest with American...
Born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1892, Demos soon moved to Constantinople where he spent his early years. He was just out of grammar school when he read his first book on philosophy, he recalls in his warm accent. "It was a funny thing. Immediately I knew I liked it better than anything else. Since one of my teachers said that it I like it best, I should make my living that way, that is all there...
...National Assembly, during a crucial debate on Indo-China policy, ex-Premier Edouard Daladier echoed L'Humanite's blood & dollars theme. After tolling off the well-known drainages (76,000 casualties and $5 billion) and frustrations of France's seven-year war against Communism in Asia, Daladier said: "One of the parties brings dollars, while the other makes a gift of its blood and its sons...
...seem rather a paradox, in view of increased vigor and will to win in the theater itself, under General Henri Navarre (TIME, Sept. 28). But since the end of the war in Korea, France is the only Western nation shedding blood on a major scale to fight Communism in Asia. Hence the resurgence of the blood & dollars theme-which could not be raised very loudly while the U.S. was fighting in Korea. Also. France now faces a painful decision on EDC (see INTERNATIONAL), and the feeling is prevalent that a pull-out of her troops in Indo-China would help...
...charge of this project is John vou Neumann, an Hungarian mathematician who joined the Institute in 1933. Von Neumann is only one of the many members who have come to the Institute from Europe or Asia. This year an estimated one-half of the eighty-one members are from outside the U. S. The requirement of a Doctor's degree is waived in the case of Europeans if they have their country's approximate equivalent...