Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allow repair of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline cut by saboteurs during the Egyptian hostilities. Declared Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.: "Unless work begins immediately . . . the oil situation will be aggravated, which means in human terms cold and hunger not only in Europe but in Asia and South America...
...Islam can survive," Frye told the first meeting of the Harvard Muslim Society, but added that over a longer period of time the sacraments and traditions of Islam can perhaps retain sufficient hold on the people of Central Asia to enable the religion and culture to stay alive...
While destroying the hold of religion, the Russians have also made Central Asia into a "showpiece" for visiting oriental delegations to admire. The coexistence of heavy industry, modern railroads, factories, and irrigation projects with the old civilization is, according to Frye, merely a sham to impress foreign visitors...
President Eisenhower might well begin by drumming into the Prime Minister's intelligent head the simple fact that there's dynamite in those Russian peace-pipes and that while Soviet smiles may do the trick in Asia, only thousands of tanks will work in Budapest. The real point in this lesson is not to force Nehru to condemn Soviet aggression--he has done this already, even if the condemnation was painfully slow in coming; the point is to emphasize to India's leader that the problems of Europe are different from those of Asia, and that the NATO alliance, backed...
Prime Minister Nehru can teach a few lessons, too. He can say that the problems of Asia are not the problems of Europe, and that America's insistence upon applying in Asia and the Middle East the principles of collective security which worked well in Europe has greatly damaged U.S. prestige and has caused more instability than it has prevented. Nehru might well point to the South East Asia Treaty Organization as an agency that is missing most of South East Asia, and to the Baghdad Pact as the impetus behind Russia's offer of arms to Egypt, and thus...