Word: asia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...credit should go to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy. He is indeed the Mr. Dulles of Asia and the Middle East...
...conduct in the Suez flare-up, i.e., Ike's forceful denunciation of British and French aggression, informed him that the American attitude opened the door to a new era of confidence and cooperation between the U.S. and India, as well as with the rest of non-Communist Asia. Along with this praise was the implication that India can now act as an advocate of the U.S. among the non-Caucasian peoples of the Middle East and Asia. When the talk turned to money, Ike assured his guest of American willingness to cooperate (possibly with long-term credits) in helping...
...against Iraq; he was also angry at Nasser's flirtation with Russia, and his cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...
...most cited text for their new reading came from Vice President Nixon's remarks, right after the U.S. voted against Britain and France in the U.N. General Assembly on the issue of Egypt: "For the first time in history, we have shown independence of Anglo-French policies toward Asia and Africa which seemed to us to reflect the colonial tradition. That declaration of independence has had an electrifying effect throughout the world." Britons saw the idea confirmed last week as India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru emerged from intimate conference with President Eisenhower wreathed in smiles and declaring that...
With such double-edged greetings blazoned on placards, the people of Burma last week greeted Tourist Chou En-lai to their shores. It was a cruel come-uppance for the Red Chinese Premier, whose sweep through neutralist Asia during the past few weeks had been marked throughout by the smiling affability of a hungry cat in a fish store. India had smiled right back at him, as had Cambodia. On his previous tour to Burma a year ago, Chou had been greeted by well-organized but nonetheless enthusiastic crowds. But since the Red Chinese forays across Burma's border...