Word: asia
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...Japan. That experience, and his subsequent travels through Asia, convinced Rockefeller that population growth had to be limited if underdeveloped countries were ever to achieve political stability. When the Rockefeller Foundation board rejected this idea as too radical, he used his own funds to set up the Population Council, which conducts research in family planning. At a dinner honoring him and his four brothers, he once said: "If my parents had been exposed to today's ideas of family planning, my brothers Win and David might not have made it." Typically, before delivering that line, he had spent...
...Dulles mission inspired Rockefeller's deep interest in Asia as well. He revitalized the moribund
Japan Society and established the Asia Society, the International House of Japan and the India International Center-organizations all devoted to fostering cultural and educational exchanges between East and West. As mementos of his trips to Asia, Rockefeller began a collection of Asian art, worth an estimated $15 million. Said his artistic adviser, Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art: "He was very moved by certain images, especially the Buddhas-the serene, contemplative figures." Rockefeller bequeathed his art to the Asia Society...
Military uses-and abuses-of mind science A Defense Department study exploring the feasibility of using odor bombs in Asia suggested that a vegetarian tribe could be effectively sickened and confused by flooding the jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
MacArthur was to be in Asia from 1935 to 1951 without ever coming home, conquering the Pacific islands, occupying and restoring the Japanese islands, commanding in Korea until Harry Truman fired him. Harry Truman fired him for good cause, of course, but there was in their clash a quintessence of the century-old clash in American history between military and civilians. MacArthur understood the politics of Asia, and not only in his legacy to Japan but in his parting admonition to his successors ("Anybody who commits the land power of the United States on the continent of Asia ought...