Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solid Phalanx. Australia, the Philippines and some other nations wanted a treaty more severe on Japan. The U.S. wanted a Japan able to stand on its feet and contribute to the stabilization of Asia. One of the most dangerous conflicts was with Britain. Shortly after Herbert Morrison became Foreign Secretary in March 1951, the British government thought that Japan should not recognize the Chinese Nationalist government in Formosa as the government of China. Dulles flew to London. He tried to persuade the British to let Japan decide for itself which Chinese government to recognize. The British cabinet first decided...
From all over Asia-and from Russia-official guests journeyed to Peking to help China's Communists celebrate the second anniversary of their sweep to power. The first thing the guests learned about Chinese Marxism was that when it came to lodging and victualing them, at bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class...
...Francisco importer, Louis P. Gainsborough, came back from a tour through the Orient, profoundly worried. "The more I traveled," says he, "the more I saw how badly we needed friends. I decided right then that I'd dedicate myself to creating an awareness of Asia...
...country have come to take them. There are courses in Islamic law and Hindu thought, in the Urdu, Pali and Bengali languages-everything from "Vedanta and Its Interpretations" to "Systems of Atmavidya." The whole idea, says Gainsborough, is to teach more than just politics and economics. "Nobody can understand Asia," says he, "without realizing that the spiritual life dominates everything...
...other kinds of suffering too. He never forgot the hungry Filipinos who picked food from his regiment's garbage pails. Back in his job as professor of religion at Oklahoma City University, Methodist Peters read with profound attention how the misery that he had glimpsed in Asia was being exploited by Communism...