Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier village of Muong Het found that it had been taken by Communist troops...
...initial conquest of China by intervention in Korea. The bombardment of Quemoy in 1958 had helped reconcile China's masses to the strains of the big leap. Now, to divert attention from its failure, Peking could point to the bloody revolt in Tibet, Indian "aggression" along the Tibetan frontier, and "the plot of the U.S. imperialists" in Laos...
...first muted outcries came when the Assembly jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
Argentina grew out of experiences deceptively similar to those that made the U.S. strong-a frontier tradition of hard-riding gaucho and hard-working settler, a Buenos Aires melting pot that produced a prosperous middle class, a good public school system based on the ideas of egalitarian U.S. Educator Horace Mann. But the immigrant millions came mostly from impecunious southern Italy and Spanish Galicia, and their deepest hunger proved to be for economic security, not freedom. They added a significant saying to the Argentine speech: "Don't get involved." Their sons, who like their beefsteaks cut thick and their...
Wherever Nehru turned last week, India was in difficulties, and he was held ultimately responsible. On his nation's northern frontier, Red Chinese invaders made a mockery of his cherished ideal of peaceful coexistence with Peking, and rumors flew of continued bloody skirmishes between Chinese and Indian patrols. In Calcutta, India's largest city (pop. 4,000,000), Communist-led food riots raged into their fifth day as howling mobs stoned the police, burned ambulances, sacked food stores and police stations. By week's end 27 rioters had been shot dead, and only the arrival of Indian...