Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome into the United Nations, Communist China. On the other hand, he will be on notice by powerful leaders of his own party, e.g., California's Senator William Knowland, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate, that they will break openly if he yields in Asia. This tough position is likely to be supported by Eisenhower's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, a firm Asia hand...
...them according to location. Cartographers often complain about the difficulties of representing the globe in two dimensions, but the librarians really ran into difficulty in the one-dimensional shelf projection when they came to the Balkans: they had to make the rather difficult decision between proceeding to Africa or Asia...
Protestant missionaries have been expelled from the mainland of China, and have been officially discouraged in other parts of Asia and the Near East. Yet more U.S. Protestant missionaries are in the field today than ever before. Last week the National Council of Churches announced that 18,004 of them were serving overseas at the end of 1952-3,000 more than...
Africa and Latin America are supplanting Asia as prime Protestant mission targets. In 1938, according to the council's estimates, China stations accounted for about 28% of all U.S. Protestant missionaries abroad; the figure for China had dropped to 4½% last year, with most of the remaining missionaries in Formosa and Hong Kong. In the same 14-year period, the percentage of U.S. missionaries assigned to Latin America and the West Indies rose from 16% to 27%, the percentage assigned to Africa (south of the Sahara) from...
...simply by the seeking. "This would be the most fateful moment for the free nations to relax their comradeship and preparations," he said. "To fail to maintain our defense up to the limit of our strength would be to paralyze every beneficent tendency towards peace both in Europe and Asia...