Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, to move forward and to lead forward. Simply put, this is not an era of peace and prosperity, and to the extent that the President has acceded to the popular wish to forget about school shortages, racial tensions, juvenile delinquency, mental disease, communism in South America, poverty in Asia, nationalism in Africa, neutralism in Europe--to the extent that the country has tried to play the role of a complacent suburb in a revolutionary world, to just this extent, President Eisenhower's four years must rank not as mere consolidation, but dangerous regression...
...most important role of the President in today's world is world leadership, and on this key issue the campaign must revolve. For despite the Republican orators, the world is neither peaceful nor prosperous. Over half the world still goes hungry every night, and rumblings in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East are far from comforting. But comfort cannot be expected, for ideological, political, and economic revolutions are sweeping the world, and will continue to do so for decades. The question is, can America lead these revolutions, or must it sit by and watch until too late...
...America, one that will not end with resolutions but will provide real political and economic leadership; toward Africa, for no policy even exists at present; toward Africa, for no policy even exists at present; toward the Arabs, who desperately need effective tutelage in the workings of a democracy; toward Asia, where a responsible neutralism has met with little respect in Washington; toward Europe, where political and economic unity must come not as a reaction against the United States, but rather as a response to this country's urging...
...canal has been a resurgence in Western Europe of the idea of a federated Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Newest reason: such a federation would be able-with or without U.S. aid-to stand on its own feet in its dealings with the rising powers of the Middle East and Asia...
...develop Asia more fully, rostow proposed a three-point program which included assisting the more backward countries, such as Indonesia and South Vietnam, to reach the point where an industrial revolution would be possible, throwing our full weight behind revolutions in India and Burma...