Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of President Eisenhower's talks with Nikita Khrushchev, might be backing away from any of the basic principles that have guided its foreign policy, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon last week had a stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned...
...immediate concern to Communist China is Formosa, but, Dillon said, "There can be no glossing over the danger that an attempt to seize Taiwan and the offshore islands is just as likely to embroil the world community in total war as is the launching of any other type of war. There can be no exceptions in the matter of peaceful settlement of disputes . . . We earnestly hope Peking will see the light...
...power are numbered and would like to win his place in history by working for peace. Khrushchev expressed his belief that the era of bipolar power-i.e., the U.S. and U.S.S.R.-is nearing an end, spoke of the necessity of reaching agreements with the U.S. before Red China and India, with their human millions, come into their own economically and militarily...
Which Label? But the biggest question mark in East-West relations remained Russia's position v. Red China's. In Peking fortnight ago, seemingly bent on restraining Chinese aggressiveness, Khrushchev had denounced "wars of conquest" but added that Marxists could still recognize "liberating wars"-precisely the label Red China would apply to an attack on Formosa. From Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary Douglas Dillon moved quickly to plug this loophole (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), warned that Moscow must share responsibility for Peking's acts...
...year after he came to Amherst, Latham became chairman of the political science department there, a position he has held for the last ten years. "I got the feeling when I went to Amherst that a Caucasian gets when he goes to China, that everyone looks alike." Latham talks about what he calls the "class homogeneity" of Amherst. "We don't really have a 'beatnik' element, or the extreme contrast of the very rich and the very poor...