Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a bright as well as a dark side to MacArthur's stalemate. The Chinese, as well as the allied forces, seemed to be pinned down in Korea. Since they intervened, their program of aggression and expansion in Asia had gained nothing. They failed to follow up their feint in Tibet; they stood idly by while Ho Chi Minh's Communists in Indo-China and the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines got their ears pinned back; Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan are as intact as they were last November...
...ideas" head the 1951 projects of the Student Council's International Activities Committee. The program received its first impetus following the East-West split. At present, the committee sponsors a seminar in Germany, an International Student Information Service, and two student projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia...
...made to the United States High Commission in Germany for support of the project. Members of the International Activities group also have discussed with the Rockefeller Foundation a possible grant for the extension of the German seminar and the establishment of student projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia...
Seminars for Asia...
William R. Polk '51 went to the Middle East last summer and made a report on student conditions there, while James P. Grant 3L prepared a similar report as Southeast Asia. Conclusions from both were similar: students tended to favor democracy, yet found their countries hindered because of the high illiteracy raise...