Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful Asians that Russia has a deep respect for U.S. striking power...
...whosoever violates it will have to pay a fine'--Well, you can't get very far that way." He also plans to find archeological evidence that the ancients believed that Bacchus, god of wine, was born on a mountain near Sardis, and that his cult spread from Asia Minor to Greece...
...more than a decade, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (often called the World Bank) has been instrumental in financing projects designed to raise the standard of living of the underdeveloped nations of Asia and Africa...
Undergraduates will be offered a half-year course, Government 118, in the "Government and Politics of Southeast Asia." The course, to be given in the Fall by Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and Anthony N. Wahl, instructor in Government, deals with the governmental institutions and problems of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Indo-china, and Malaya...
...Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi likes to portray his nation as the one sure bulwark against Asian Communism. He even argues that the U.S. ought to underwrite a $700 million to $800 million fund to make sure that Japan, rather than Communist China, wins economic leadership of Southeast Asia. Yet six weeks ago, when a "private" Japanese delegation signed a $196 million trade pact with Red China. Kishi gave the deal his blessing. Nor did he boggle at the key condition extracted by Peking: establishment in Tokyo of a Chinese Communist trade mission with quasi-diplomatic privileges, including...