Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Washington bureau, went ashore with U.S. troops at Attu, Tarawa and many another Pacific beachhead during World War II. After the war, as senior correspondent in the Far East, he traveled thousands of miles on a roving assignment for TIME, following the news in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. He has almost completed an extracurricular activity-the official Marine aviation history of World...
...example, Max Ways, Senior Editor for War in Asia and Foreign News, last year toured Japan, China, Siam, Indonesia. And Foreign News' Sam Welles, an incurable globetrotter, covered 35,000 miles on a recent ten and a half months' Far East refresher trip, interviewing sultans, premiers, generals, schoolgirls, farmers and factory hands...
...Asia Writer Dwight Martin is now standing by for possible reassignment to the Far East. As a TIME correspondent in Shanghai, Formosa and Hong Kong in 1948-49, he absorbed much of the background for the current crisis...
...what was indeed a wretched record, even suffered a defection from their own ranks. Nevada's Pat McCarran, a blustery Democrat whose chief concern with foreign policy has been a single-minded drive to bring Spain into ECA, declared that the dust had settled long enough in Asia. Roared McCarran: "I am quite familiar with the doctrine of those desk-bound intellectuals who got all mixed up, those gentlemen who would probably describe Al Capone as the product of an unhappy childhood, those gentlemen who saw a boil on China's neck and called in the executioner with...
Southeast Asia is old Joseph Conrad country. There are still a few stories to be picked up out that way, and young (29) Novelist David Loughlin is just the man to try. His hero, DeCarlo, ship's electrician of the Nicaragua Victory, shows how much, and how little, times have changed...