Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also fatal, continued the general, to neglect Asia for Europe. "One would be foolhardy indeed to quench a fire in the kitchen while leaving another room aflame . . ." MacArthur belabored another pet Democratic policy: "The Administration is obsessed by the idea that we can spend ourselves into a position of leadership abroad, just as it believes we can spend ourselves into prosperity at home . . . Both are based upon illusory premises . . . World leadership can only rest upon world respect. Such respect is one of those spiritual ideals . . . influenced solely by the soundness of ... our own civilization...
...European capitals, Dean Acheson last week began a six-day visit to the principal cities of Brazil. The first U.S. Secretary of State to visit South America in four years, he was there to reassure Brazilians that the U.S., in its preoccupation with the problems of Europe and Asia, has not forgotten its friendship with the world's largest republic...
...gave Seaboard permission to make 72 flights a month to Europe, Asia and the Middle East on a temporary basis, provided that it carries at least 40% Government cargo on its outbound trips. Thus, Seaboard will be able to set up regular flights, get the benefits of scheduled service. CAB, which once turned down Seaboard's application for permanent scheduled Atlantic routes, also agreed to reconsider the application...
...remained for Party Philosopher G. Aleksandrov to cap it all in a big article in Pravda. "Cannibalistic American imperialism," wrote he, has a master plan in the works for eliminating 700 million people in Europe and Asia with a calculated program of war, starvation and disease.* The Americans now consider themselves a "master race," with a mission to rid the world of "inferior" people. "Let all people of good will in all countries of the world know these facts," wrote Aleksandrov. "Let them remember that in the person of the American imperialists and their supporters there are the bloodiest beasts...
...authorized: 96), but the cost of Amerika ($150,000 last year) was well below the magazine's authorized budget of $500,000. She also launched other projects, including Yugoslav and Arabic editions of Amerika and a new magazine, Free World, now published in eleven languages in southeast Asia, plus propaganda comic books and numerous pamphlets...