Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally candid with the West: the people of free Asia are "impatient ... to reduce their immense technical backwardness . . . They clamor for immediate economic development." Thus, said Diem, the debate among Viet Nam leaders is how "to attain economic progress without sacrificing essential liberties." Their choice is not between economic planning and no planning, but whether progress will take place by democratic or totalitarian means. Vital to the outcome of this debate, Diem warned, "are the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid" from the industrial West. President Diem's implied point: if the West...
Like every other chief of state in Southeast Asia. South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was disturbed by the disproportionate economic influence wielded by his country's closely knit 1,000,000 "overseas Chinese."* In South Viet Nam 75% of the country's rice and corn trade is Chinese-controlled, and Chinese entrepreneurs dominate much of the nation's export-import trade, banking and shopkeeping. President Diem felt that Chinese who lived and worked in South Viet Nam should become Vietnamese citizens. The Chinese, respectable, law-abiding, but ever prideful of their heritage, disagreed...
Eight months ago Diem issued executive decrees disbarring Chinese and other foreigners from eleven lines of business, proclaimed 500,000 Viet Nam-born Chinese males (known as "uncles") forthwith Vietnamized, and commanded them to take new names. South Viet Nam's Chinese, one of Southeast Asia's most outspokenly anti-Communist communities, reacted promptly. Some Chinese businessmen simply took in a Vietnamese partner as a cover, stayed right on in business. But many others, partly from pride, partly because they thought Diem was bluffing, decided to hold...
...China, several hundred unhappy Chinese rioted, wrecked the Chinese legation, screamed denunciations at Chinese Minister Yuen Tse-kien. In Formosa's capital of Taipeh, Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh worried whether the Vietnamese demonstration was only the beginning: "We Chinese are being looked on as the Jews of Asia...
Toward the Double Bass. The new concerto is a close collaboration between Piatigorsky's Russian ebullience and Walton's polite English diligence. Composer Walton started his work two years ago on the Italian island of Ischia, but he and Piatigorsky, then touring the U.S. and Asia, kept in close touch. "I would cable him, IN BAR FOUR AFTER F. IS THAT A B OR B FLAT," says Piatigorsky. "and I would get an answer: B FLAT. SORRY. LOVE, WILLIE." The cabled exchange of suggestions and corrections went on even after the Boston premiere, and up to the Concerto...