Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip last month to the Middle East and South Asia, Secretary of State Foster Dulles was startled to find that India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was convinced that the U.S. really did not want a truce. Dulles persuaded Nehru that the U.S. was sincere in.its insistence on "honorable" terms. Nehru relayed his own changed opinion of U.S. intentions to Peking. From that point on, the negotiators at Panmunjom swiftly came to terms. The prisoner agreement as finally signed was, in essence, Nehru's plan...
...much less success. Joseph Vurardi, chairman of the Legion's Nebraska Un-American Activities Committee, accused "a certain professor" at the University of Nebraska of using "a certain book" in his class. "Students can't swallow that staff," Vurardi said. The book turned out to be "The State of Asia," a publication of the Institute of Pacific Relations. One of its articles was written by Owen Lattimore. The "indoctrinator" was Dr. E. N. Anderson, professor of history...
...attention of students. The reacion was immediate. The Nebraska University Student Council passed a resolution "expressing complete confidence in the loyalty, integrity, and principles of Dr. Anderson." The Daily Nebraskan said the Legion tactics were creating "a nation of spies." Nothing happened to Anderson or "The State of Asia," but at least one member of the Legion's Un American activities committee has resigned because of the incident...
...afternoon, another group discussed "American Policy in East Asia," with W. Barry Bingham '28, president and editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, moderating. Panel members were professors Edwin O. Reischauer, Benjamin I. Schwartz, and Robert L. Wolff...
...believes that "the day is past" when aspirations of "the peoples of the Near East and Asia can be ignored"; that the U.S. can "usefully help" progress by providing technical assistance under MSA (but "in some cases" Middle East governments should use their own oil royalties to better advantage...