Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little-known fields hold has aided this growth, he said. However, he pointed out that there is a scarcity of books, even in Far Eastern languages, dealing with these subjects. Also, competent teachers are lacking. Because of these difficulties, students are often afraid to enter what Reischauer termed a "frontier situation...
Something for Nothing. To New Delhi's notes of protest, Red China filed counterblasts charging India itself with "provocations" and "border violations," asserting: "Frontier guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have all along been stationed in this entire area." Otherwise, asked Peking righteously, "How is it thinkable that China could have built a highway through this region?" The fact that the Chinese suffered few casualties in the latest skirmishes, said Peking, "exactly proves that the Chinese side was on the defensive. Anybody with a little knowledge of military affairs knows that...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
...protect its northern borders? For the first time, the word "war" was on many lips. Some Indian editors were urging a military defense pact with Pakistan, and there were even suggestions that it was time to accept help from other non-Communist countries. On the northern borders, all frontier posts were transferred from the police to the Indian army, now commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese and North Korean Communist soldiers...
United Arab Republic frontier guards and camel corps began a search...