Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are two fine people who by their way of life make no mean contribution to the maintenance and consolidation of friendship and good will among the peoples of the West, of Africa and of Asia; yet TIME [Feb. 18] gives space to scurrilous rumors about their private activities...
After suffering the worst war depredation of any nation in Southeast Asia, Burma in nine years of independence has managed to restore its national output to less than 90% of what it was before World War II. Because of the civil warring, there are 3,000,000 fewer acres of farmland under cultivation, despite an ambitious development plan inaugurated by the government four years...
...editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi has had the official title Acting Temporary Prime Minister throughout Ishibashi's illness. A business tycoon (steel, chemicals), he has been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria's top economic czars. As former Minister of Commerce and Industry in militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, he was clapped into jail by the allied occupation forces on suspicion of being a war criminal, later released without trial...
...blue-bordered sari was briskly going about the business of making Calcutta a better place to die in-and to ward off death when possible. Mother Teresa and 62 sisters of the six-year-old Roman Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity are running one of Asia's most remarkable missions at the very gate of the temple of Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction...