Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the most dismaying monuments to America's entry into world politics is Asia in shambles. There, the State Department must not only deal with familiar topics of international badinage, like colonialism, trade relations, and the other problems dissected time and again in diplomatic histories, but with shockingly new troubles as well. Communism has combined with nationalism to befuddle those accustomed to the old routine (not least among them the seniority-ridden Old Guard) and the task of conceiving new policies has fallen to the Administration...
...Asia presents two crucial problems; what should the United States do to at least neutralize, if not win over, countries that have already gone Communist, and how should it prevent now friendly or wavering nations from succumbing to Russo-Chinese blandishments? There is no separating these problems, and any policy which attacks them piecemeal is ill-fated indeed...
...reductions in funds for Israel) was based on his belief that the program was poorly planned. On the floor of the House in June, 1952, he spoke unequivocally in favor of the Point Four Program. He explained this his on-the-scene investigation of underdeveloped areas in Southeast Asia and the Middle East convinced him that Point Four, with its technical assistance projects, is the most effective way of combating communism in those areas...
Party during the past few years has really put them in business in both Europe and Asia...
...British competitors something to worry about, were making the same kind of progress in another field last week. In Tokyo, Japan's top shipping firms, who came out of the war with a total of only six seagoing ships, were advertising 23 sailings a month to Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Africa. On the Tokyo-to-New-York run, the busiest postwar route, Japan now has 47 fast (16-17 knots) new freighters...