Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable why you ridicule the Justice's advocacy of land reform in Asia, while you praise the land-reform program adopted by ECOSOC upon motion...
There was plenty to talk about. Communist strategy is fixed and crystal-clear-to win Communist domination of Asia-but Communist tactics are growing more obscure every day. Currently, Communist propaganda is truculent, violent and fanciful. It accuses the U.S. of wrecking the peace talks (broken off by the Reds on Aug. 23); it claims to have uncovered a U.N. plan for amphibious landings on both coasts of North Korea; it avers that a captured Mustang pilot had in his possession target maps of Manchuria, which proves that alleged U.N. invasions of "Chinese air space" were planned and not accidental...
Fairbank also feels that the public hysteria caused by anti-communism is restricting study in Asia, a topic which he will discuss tonight at the Harvard Liberal Union's forum on "Anti-Communism and Public Policy...
Americans tend to overemphasize the importance of India in Asia, according to Reischauer. "She certainly wields little influence on Western Asia--the Mohammaden world--none at all on the Far East, and only some over Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia. The latter two countries signed the treaty despite her,"he pointed out. "The only danger of her attitude on the peace conference was that she might sway the Asian nations, which, it turned out, she didn...
...Southeast Asia is the cornerstone of the defense of the Pacific. But at this moment, there are areas in Southeast Asia where a power vacuum exists [e.g., Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China] ... We must make . . . one single treaty-all for one and one for all ... With such a program ... we would have actually more human beings [850 million] on our side . . . than there are in all the miserable slave states under Communist control. . . Such tremendous might on the side of freedom . . . would be more than any tyrant would dare attack. It would be the greatest alliance in history for peace...