Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rachmat Suroyo of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated last night at a forum sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union that the only way for the U.S. to pull its foreign policy out of the impasse that has developed in Southeast Asia is to work for the independence of the countries there, try to raise their standards of living, and encourage them to form independent policies...
Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, the other speaker, said that America's best course of action in Southeast Asia would now be "to show them that they are most likely to attain their national equality through association with the free nations...
...fleeting days of last week the thunder from Asia, Europe and the Middle East retired to quiet mutterings beyond the horizons. In the relative silence the U.S. heard-like the comfortable tickings of a grandfather clock-some of the nostalgic noises of old-fashioned normalcy...
Anxiously eying Southeast Asia's vulnerable frontiers, the Pentagon has begun to fear that the next trouble spot may be, not Indo-China, but Burma. A rich prize and weakly held, Burma, which declared its independence from the British Empire in 1947, has a common frontier with Red China which its ill-trained, ill-equipped 50,000-man army shows no capacity to defend. Last week at the Paris meeting of U.N., Burma, as well as Indo-China, was in mind when representatives of the U.S., Britain and France, one by one, got up to warn that any "Communist...
Aiming to present a "primarily educational" discussion on southeast Asia as background before trouble breaks out in that area, the Harvard Liberal Union will feature Rupert Emerson '21, professor of Government, and Rochmat Suroyo, a member of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at Emerson D. The talk is entitled, "Southeast Asia: The Next Battleground...