Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world: how to accelerate the flow of investment capital to areas in the Western Hemisphere where it would do the most good. The conference was so successful that TLI Director Edgar Baker began at once to plan a meeting focused on another geographical area. On a trip to Asia to test the idea on businessmen and bankers there, Baker found widespread interest...
...timing of the San Francisco conference turns out to be just right. At this moment the economy of abundance (in the U.S. and elsewhere) and the revolution of rising expectations (in Asia and elsewhere) are both running into trouble. These troubles can be overcome by a wise public policy and energetic private enterprise. The fact that 600 business leaders from every country in the free world are meeting together is in itself striking evidence of the vitality of private enterprise and its determination to open up the way to decades of tremendous economic advance...
...Mediterranean sunshine, as the Marines fanned out widely in five-man teams in accordance with the Corps' new antinuclear tactics of "separation and concentration." Flying in, they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game...
...than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from 41.9% in 1955-56 to 29.3% in the latest fiscal year...
...funds. Eisenhower has noted that "one third of all mankind" was awakening to wants and potentialities. The importance of guiding the rising restlessness and energies of underdeveloped peoples into democratic channels of progress could not be overemphasized, for either humanitarian or security reasons. If the national leaders of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are not successful in leading their people into the twentieth century they will be replaced, and in all probability by more extreme and opportunistic leaders. To maintain domestic rule, uneasy leaders may resort to more extreme external adventures...