Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After having been brought to a dead stop by defeat at Geneva, the U.S. last week began to bestir itself again in Asia. Out to seven prospective partners went copies of a new draft treaty designed to create a Southeast Asia defense coalition (SEATO). The treaty will be discussed next week at a meeting in Manila, with John Foster Dulles on hand to make the U.S. case...
Regrettably, only three Asian nations -Pakistan. Thailand and the Philippines -had accepted invitations; the others who would be present were Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand. According to the draft proposal, these SEATO powers would recognize that an armed attack against any part of the SEATO area would endanger them all, and would act to meet the common danger "in accordance with their own constitutional processes"-in other words, not automatically. In the likelier event of the Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge...
...dropping the wet one in the bath), which is convenient since in Burma the poor usually bathe at public wells or faucets; one can also unhitch the longyi in Burma's uncomfortable humidity, spreading the cloth with an easy, billowing motion, letting in a refreshing draft of air without exposure. Longyis, like much else in Burma, may seem strange to Western eyes, but they are peculiarly suited to Burma...
...began to see what the war was about . . ." He asked to be classified as eligible for the draft but was found to be 4F (perforated eardrum). He pressed for an overseas war job and got one with OWI, was sent to South China in 1945 to write leaflets and show U.S. movies. Hinton was soon convinced that he wanted to save the Chinese...
...whole Ungava production is ready. Soon nine 100-car trains a day will be rolling down from the mines to the Seven Islands docks. Some ore will go by sea to Baltimore and Philadelphia. The rest will go in shallow-draft ships down the St. Lawrence to the steel mills of Cleveland and Pittsburgh and inland Canada. When the St. Lawrence Seaway is ready, oceangoing freighters can do all the carrying. By 1957 about 10 million tons of ore a year will be coming out of Ungava's veins, and the world's mightiest industrial nation need...