Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia Story (Sun. noon, CBS). A new show dedicated to the Far East. First guest: India's Ambassador...
...Picture. More & more, voters are aware that the U.S. long-run position in the world has deteriorated and is in grave danger of further deterioration, especially in Asia and the Middle East. The Korean deadlock is a symbol of the Administration's inability to make real headway in resolving the world crisis. An Administration which will not admit its past calamitous mistakes (e.g., China) cannot set vigorously about retrieving those mistakes...
...loss of face for the Communists; it was also an important economic blow. The disputed planes (mostly C-46s and DC-38, plus six DC-48 and five Convairs), along with thousands of spare parts, are worth an estimated $30 million, the biggest piece of airline property in East Asia. The Communists expecting to hang on to the planes, had kept most of them carefully mothballed and in good condition. Hong Kong nervously got set for reprisals against British business...
...date was Dec. 10, and in the space of a few hours the British navy ceased to be a power in the Pacific. Through the fall of Singapore to the Battle of the Coral Sea, Australia became acutely aware of her isolated geographical position and, in the face of Asia's agitated masses, her own lack of people. "We must populate or perish," sloganed Arthur Calwell, the Labor government's Immigration Minister. "We must double or quit," wrote Liberal Leader R. G. Casey. At war's end the opposition political parties were agreed on one point: large...
...rich deserts and teeming cities where Africa, Asia and Europe converge, revolution, nourished by nationalism and by the slow wrath of miserable peasants, threatened to whisk away all forms and institutions that lack roots in the Middle East's history. Most in danger were the quasi-constitutional monarchies cultivated in the Middle East by British imperialism. They have all the trappings of democracy but little of its spirit. Middle Eastern parliaments represent the ruling classes, but not the ruled; "public opinion" is manipulated, law courts too often protect the rich against the wretched; taxation is designed to promote...