Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined specifically for what kind of activity the funds should be directed. 3--Perhaps the Council should subsidize a Hungarian student and thereby get out of the home scholarship completely. 4--The Council could reconstitute my original intent and help a qualified Junior to go to Europe or Asia for the purpose of executing a project in the field of foreign affairs which will be of material interest to the Harvard Community...
...First among these would be to give the UN something to do. He suggested letting the UN control all international waterways, and produce and market oil. Slessor also suggested that three "interlocking mutual security treaties, backed by the major powers," be firmly established in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
...fiscal 1957 economic aid to Asia rose from $960 million to $1.14 billion, and total economic and military aid from $1.5 billion to well over $2 billion. In the same budget, only Greece and Turkey among European NATO powers got any economic...
...shift from Europe to Asia in recent years is not so much a change of affections as it is a recognition of 1) how well Western Europe has recovered, and 2) how much the area of imminent danger of Communist penetration shifted to Asia, after the Communists completed their conquest of China...
...immense outpouring of art which began more than 5,000 years ago in the fertile Indus Valley has flooded over to enrich the lives of millions in India, Central Asia, China, Java and Cambodia. But because the main stream of Indian art flowed away from the sources that were to nourish Western art, Indian sculpture has remained something strange and remote to Western sensibilities...