Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insistent public demands for Japanese rearmament were received with ill grace by Prime Minister Yoshida, because of the political explosiveness of the issue. Last week, however, Japan's two largest political parties announced their joint support of a rearmament program that will reduce the power vacuum in northeast Asia...
...assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with a choice between Communism and colonialism. Result: new hope for winning the seven-year-old Indo-China war and stopping the Communist advance into Southeast Asia...
This is not the neutralism of cowards or mugwumps. It is an assertion of the right of civilized and free men to reject doctrinaire absolutism, to judge issues on their merits, and to put forward constructive alternatives. Nehru in Asia and the democratic socialists of Britain and Western Europe may be more useful as intermediaries than as crusaders. After all, we agree on some issues with either side: with the Russians, we reject what seems to us the jungle philosophy of big-business capitalism; we stress political liberties as strongly as the Americans do-or did before...
Certainly Britain, and other Commonwealth countries, want to trade with China. Why not? By blocking this trade-and by backing the Japanese invasion of other former British markets in Asia-the Americans are destroying British and Commonwealth prosperity. As a socialist, I am an anti-imperialist: but the new imperialism of the dollar seems to me at least as harmful as the old imperialism; I know that our small, overcrowded, over-industrialized island must trade to live, and we do not want to live mainly on dollar handouts, grateful as we have been for them. If all that Mr. Dulles...
...discriminatory promise of lavish material help for the rehabilitation of South Korea and not of North Korea. The American food parcel can be as true a symbol of Christian love as the cup of cold water; but the political, and even electoral, strings attached to such aid in Asia, in Italy, and in Berlin have robbed the gift of its virtue and induced either sycophancy or cynicism in those who receive it. The Good Samaritan did not ask to see the party card of the man he was taking...