Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argue with Rivers. "Now," said Dean Acheson, "you see the same exhibition on the other side in regard to Soviet policy in China . . . There have been created all over the world these situations of weakness. Every time one of those situations exists, and they exist in Asia and they exist in Europe, it is not only an invitation but an irresistible invitation for the Soviet government to fish in those troubled waters. To ask them not to fish and to say we will have an agreement that you won't fish is like trying to deal with a force...
...care about Communism as Communism," he says. "Their very natures are opposed to it. But there are two great causes in which they believe passionately-national freedom and the uplift of Asian masses. If we Western democracies show that we strongly support these policies and will help achieve them, Asia will never go Communist...
...Back Up. If the MacDonald plans work out in Malaya, the chances are better for his greater plan in Southeast Asia. The Commissioner has organized regional conferences on rice and fisheries, lent out British experts in agriculture, mining and other technical fields. It has cost money. In the past three years Britain has spent ?750 million in southern Asia, including India. British resources are strained, and yet the biggest effort still lies ahead. "It's got to be the real thing," warns MacDonald...
Obviously, the Kremlin would not have substituted this unpopular policy for the popular economic argument if it had not put military considerations first. The Kremlin has realized far more clearly than the West that in Asia and in Europe the military stakes are far more important than the economic stakes. A prosperous area will not necessarily be a defensible area. An area which the West resolutely and intelligently prepares for defense can, in time, be made into a prosperous area...
Scientific books will go to the University of Rangoon, whose library was seriously depleted by the Japanese. The College will do well to take advantage of this opportunity to rebuild one of the leading institutions in Asia...