Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chen-Yah, Hong Kong publisher, speaking on the attitudes of overseas Chinese, forsaw a decline in communist sentiments and "an eventual defeat of communism in China and South-East Asia as a whole." At present however, he admitted there is "a limit to what the overseas Chinese can do "to bring this about...
...with his wife and six children, even trim, tireless Bill Graham felt like shedding the cares of business for a relaxing look at exotic sights. But he could not relax as he saw the grinding poverty and encountered the stifling state control and the huge capital shortage that pervades Asia. "Everybody seemed to be sitting around without hope. Nobody seemed to know about free enterprise and what made it click...
...Seventh Grade: history and geography of Texas, replacing a course on the geography of Europe and Asia...
...Timeless Longing. Kilmuir spoke of the hard-fought past that had led to the "free legal and political systems which are the heritage and pride not only of our two nations but of the Western world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...