Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the cold war began, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have been locked in a world-wide grapple for men's minds. Often it seemed that the U.S.S.R. was making giant strides ahead, particularly among the emergent new nationalists and neutralists of Asia and Africa. Last week the U.S. was winning new trust and confidence while the U.S.S.R. reaped a bitter harvest of distrust, disillusionment and despair...
...supported the British-French-Israeli position in Egypt, they "might have won a military victory in that area. But they and we would have lost the moral support of the whole world . . . Because we took the position we did, the peoples of Africa and Asia now know that the U.S. has no illusions about 'the white man's burden' and 'white supremacy.' The military victory our friends might have won in the Near East would not have solved . . . the problem. Lasting solutions are rarely forged in the ruins...
...seers this was an indication that the new Dalai Lama must be looked for in the east. In retrospect, they might give it a different meaning. For since then Tibet has been conquered from the east by Red China, which is currently carrying on a vigorous campaign to woo Asia's 150 million Buddhists...
Hughes and Koestler met by chance in Ashkhabad in 1932, and it is interesting to compare their accounts of the weeks they spent together in Russian Central Asia. Koestler had come to inspect the accomplishments of the Soviet Five Year Plan in backward areas such as Ashkhabad, while Hughes was enjoying a free vacation at the expense of the Russians after the movie he had come to Russia to make had turned into a fiasco...
...pretty much as he found them and, if possible, to get fun out of them. In Russia for instance a free dental filling "seemed to me a minor miracle." "Moscow dental customs, the unveiling of the harem women in Turkestan, and the disappearance of the color line throughout Soviet Asia, are the three achievements I remember best of the whole USSR...