Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been known to beat rowdy followers over the head with a chair. In London last week, Nehru exhibited another specimen from his bulging bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia. In the next, he showed no sympathy or understanding whatever in India's long dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, thereby increasing the likelihood of more bloodshed on the Indian subcontinent...
Japan may be the strongest anti-Communist force in Asia. But as an occupied country, it is a limping liability which U.S. troops are obliged to defend. Recognizing that General MacArthur's successful occupation has passed the point of diminishing returns, President Truman last week gave hope of an early Japanese peace treaty. He appointed U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles head of a mission to "conduct such further discussions and negotiations as may be necessary to bring a Japanese settlement to an eventual successful conclusion...
Cold Commitment. Rearmament would stretch Japan's present piano-wire economy to the breaking point. Japan must import most of its industrial raw materials, even depends on outside sources for 20% of its food. Southeast Asia can supply part of Japan's new material needs, but the loss of access to North China's coal and iron has dimmed Japan's industrial prospect...
...week's end even those Commonwealth members (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia) who had refused to recognize Red China, were watching Asia and Lake Success through Nehru's pink window. The proposals grew nearer and nearer to what the conferees thought China's Red Boss Mao Tse-tung wanted. In a flurry of cables and transatlantic telephone calls, St. Laurent and Nehru worked out a new cease-fire plan for Korea. They sent instructions to their delegates on U.N.'s Truce Committee, Canada's Lester Pearson and India...
...embargoed shipments destined for Red China, Hong Kong's bubble burst. The Chinese Communists angrily declared a counter-embargo. But it was still hard to convince Hong Kong's public, long lulled into security by the tinkle of cash registers, that a war was going on in Asia...