Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles rightly stressed that the truce was a beginning rather than an end-the beginning of a new effort to bring peace and justice to Asia. The success of that new effort depended in part on how the nation and its policymakers understood the past -including the Korean...
...political conference that is to follow the ceasefire, in the dozens of moves that both sides can make in Asia in the next few months, the real measure of the Korean war will be taken. If the U.S. and its allies develop no more will and purpose than they showed in the Korean war, then further costly stalemate is the best that can result...
Merchants & Poets. Rahab the Harlot, whose "house was upon the town wall." concealed the spies sent by Joshua into Jericho; in return, Rahab was protected by the Israelites when the walls came tumbling down. The screen of "merchants" who preceded the Mongol hordes across Asia in the 13th century were the occupational ancestors of the Nazi "businessmen" and "tourists" who infested Europe and Latin America in the 1930s. In China, it is said, military intelligence became such a respected art that rival commanders sometimes parleyed, each with his spies in attendance, and worked out how a pending battle would come...
Scene: Two men, roped together, stand on the roof of the world and gaze at the scene before them. One is Hillary, representing the spiritual heritage of Europe. The other is Tenzing, representing the spiritual heritage of Asia...
...carloads of Government-surplus powdered milk for the needy abroad, part of a project sponsored by a group of U.S. church and welfare organizations, left Milwaukee last week bound for Europe and Asia. In all, 90 million Ibs. of milk will be shipped under the program...