Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell America that Asia will readily stand by you, but only if you treat us like equals and help us to help ourselves...
...want us Asians to fight on your side against Communism. Well, we are fighting at this very moment devils more dreadful . . . disease, poverty, ignorance. You are the richest country in the world, and the countries of Asia are the poorest...
...have equipped the Chinese Communist air force with 1,500 airplanes (including 900 jet-powered MIG-iss), to create for China, in a matter of months, the world's fourth largest air force (after the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain). Together, the Russians and the Chinese now have in Asia enough planes and ready-built bases (from Manchuria to Indo-China) to seize control of the air throughout the Far East, including the air over Japan...
Worse than Asia. For measuring purposes, the foundation used a scale under which a community with proper sanitary facilities and good health conditions gets a hypothetical 106.5 points. The Egyptian villages scored only 23.8 points, far worse even than populous, poverty-plagued villages in India, China and the West Indies (average: 53-25 points...
...instance, during a typical evening, the ISA may show two or three films in the large meeting room, while later in another section of the Center, prominent professors who make up the Association's informal "faculty" may lead a discussion on topics as varied as "Communism in Asia" and "Social Implications of Life Insurance." The music room, with its supply of records, also has its devotees...