Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfway around the globe from Australia and the problems of Southeast Asia flew U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to land at Washington National Airport-and to find Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir, fresh-flown from the Middle East via Paris, already waiting for him with new and critical problems in her part of the world...
Before he came home to the freshly-fanned Middle East crisis, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looked over a part of the globe where he had helped put out the fires nearly three years ago. Addressing the third annual council meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at Canberra, Australia, Dulles declared that SEATO had been successful in blocking the spread of Communism in Asia: "The increased stability in the treaty area is fully evident," e.g., in "the unity and strength developed by the Republic of Viet...
...members of the eight-nation group (U.S., Britain, France, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan) that SEATO must maintain its posture of defense-both militarily, against the ever-present threat of Red Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast support for the government of the Republic of China on Formosa...
This is not an idea that has made much headway in Asia and Africa. With sublime self-confidence, backward peoples in a score of lands have seized upon the ballot as a kind of 20th-century witchcraft, a white man's juju which would solve all problems. In Kenya, where Africans were allowed to participate in Legislative Council elections for the first time last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which...
...American universities would profit from the contact with the different view-points of these men. This would be particularly true of scholars studying the Near and Far East who would be able to come in contact directly with some of the leading minds in Asia...