Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolontis, who has just returned from a tour of student centers in Southwest Asia, said that although America supplies most of the actual reconstruction materials, the United States would receive definite benefits from the rehabilitation of foreign schools...
...Hill, agreed to spend $10.5 million or less on Formosa from some leftover ECA funds in return for funds for South Korea, a U.S. ward perilously adjoining the Soviet puppet regime of North Korea. For two days House Republicans railed against the Administration's "do nothing" policy in Asia before 42 of them (out of 169) finally joined in supporting the Administration in an area-Korea-where it really was trying to be positive...
Last summer Philippines President Elpidio Quirino viewed with militant alarm the advances of Communism toward Southeast Asia. He called for a "firewall" to seal off the Red flame in China. In an address before Congress he asked the U.S. "not to tarry too long in the redefinition of fundamental attitudes toward Asia...
Austria, the new threat to Southeast Asia as "local conflicts" with Russia, which should not provoke "a general policy of indignation." The usually vigorous anti-Communist Paris-Presse followed the line of Le Monde, asking if "prudence did not suggest playing both the card of military security with the U.S. and the card of neutrality (hypothetical) in the case of a conflict...
...past three years, says Burnham, Communism made a net gain in its drive for power. The free world contained the enemy in Europe, but retreated dismally in Asia. Still, "dynamically considered, the years 1946-49 show a net trend against the Communists. If the Communists are not yet losing-and they are not-their rate of advance has at least been slowed...