Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhowever is cited by the Committee as having stated that none of our experts were certain that Ho Ohi Minh would have won a general election. It's to bad they didn't cite a Southeast Asian; I don't think they could have found one to cite. I peat last year in Southeast Asia, is India, Thailand, Formosa, the Philippines. Everywhere I heard that Ho had once been regarded, and rightfully so, as the George Washington to Indochina. He had led his people against the imperialist French and, with General Giap, had waged a brilliant, tightly-organized campaign against...
...Asian or African standards, the anti-American demonstration in Manila was sedate. Some Reds were undoubtedly involved, but it seemed to be the work mostly of a mixed lot of opportunistic politicians hoping to exploit nationalist feeling. Still, American and Filipino officials worried about the future of U.S.-Philippine relations and, indeed, about the stability of the strongest anti-Communist bastion in Southeast Asia. Given the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam and the Communist menace to the whole region, the Philippine Republic, which is often hopefully regarded as the showcase of U.S. style democracy in Asia, becomes increasingly important...
...doubted that the Red Chinese would still jump at the chance to join the existing U.N. troupe, if they were allowed to take over Nationalist China's role. For the present, not a single U.N. member, Afro-Asian or other, paid any attention to Peking's challenge, and even such "neutralists" as Tito and Nasser were opposed to the Chinese-Indonesian game. The General Assembly was more interested in achieving some resolution of the U.N.'s continuing financial crisis. At week's end, Subandrio agreed to accept $100 million in aid from Peking plus "military experience...
...Asians & Costs. The challenger of the oil giants is Roderick W. Miller, 53, a coal tycoon who is motivated equally by patriotism and enlightened self-interest. When he inherited his father's coal mining and distribution company in 1958, Miller found that his Australian-built colliers and their unionized Australian crews could not compete economically with the dilapidated foreign-flag tankers and their low-wage Asian crews. He told the oil companies that unless they used Australian tankers, which would raise their costs and thus make coal more competitive, he would go into the oil-tanker business himself. Says...
Happiness into Hatred. In Hersey's scheme, two centuries collapse into a decade, roughly coinciding with the '20s. Imperial China conquers the U.S., and the yellow hordes shanghai whole populations to the Asian mainland. The heroine, a teen-ager in Arizona, is seized by whitebirders and transported to Peking, where she is sold to a high official and assigned to his wife as a body slave...