Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep India out of the mainstream of the cold war as much as possible. In this way India will have a much better chance to build a stable, economically sound democratic system; and she will also be considerably more effective as a moderating influence on other, less responsible Asian and African countries...
Paramount Loyalty. As the Afro-Asian nations make their way along the slippery path of nationalism, they may well discover that it eventually leads them to federations, or to such combinations as today's European Common Market. Historian Arnold Toynbee argues: "Nationalism certainly doesn't fit into a world riven into ever larger groups. We can no longer afford to have many tiny states which may go to war with each other...
...Historical Department and Robert A. Paul, an undergraduate, contribute solid supporting articles that would be excellent after a little more editing. Iriye's description of Japan's "great debate" between advocates of stronger economic and political ties to Europe and America is and seekers after an old, compelling Pan-Asian vision is wonderfully clear; and Paul explains precisely how Russian propaganda justifies its hostility to an E.E.C. purported dominated and duped by monopolist and revanchist Germans. In a fascinating analysis packed thickly, like a sardine can, with facts, Dale Peterson gently and dexterously pulls apart Russia's role...
...India to pay obeisance to Nehru as though to a Buddha. And Nehru obviously believed that whatever he did. in case of real need the U.S. would have to help India anyway. Meanwhile, as he saw it. the object of his foreign policy was to prevent the two great Asian powers -Russia and China-from combining against India. In his effort to woo both, acerbic Krishna Menon, says one Western diplomat, "was worth the weight of four or five ordinary men. He was so obnoxious to the West that, almost alone, he could demonstrate the sincerity of India...
...nations, while having dramatically demonstrated their military superiority over India and without having to abandon the long-range threat. Says Madame Pandit: "This attack was far more than just an attack on one border. India is completely and wholly dedicated to democracy and not to some kind of 'Asian democracy.' China's motive was to humiliate India and to prove democracy is unworkable in Asia...