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...Europe, or of wanting to reimpose a discredited past upon Asia. "The issues are global," he said, "and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of another is to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is com- monly referred to as the gateway to Eu rope, it is no less true that Europe is the gateway to Asia . . . There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts ... I can think of no greater expression of defeatism...
Shaw takes the visitor on a 59-picture tour of Ayot (rhymes, according to Shaw, with say it). Beginning at his own gateway, over which the local blacksmith has wrought an iron notice, "Shaw's Corner," he moves on to the churchyard which first drew him to Ayot. Two world wars have intervened and he notes another tombstone...
High Commissioner Pignon last week called for all Western powers to organize a united front against the Reds in Southeast Asia. It was a little late in the day. Plainly, the Chinese Reds could take Indo-China, the gateway to Southeast Asia, any time they chose...
...month that Tibet has been under Chinese Red attack, much of the news from the roof of the world has come from yak-drivers, muleteers and porters. Their hearsay and gossip, picked up at Kalim-pong, India's gateway to Tibet, became grist for a notable rumor mill (see PRESS) that had Lhasa lost, the Dalai Lama in flight, his army destroyed, his lamaseries in turmoil...
...south-coast flank, where the enemy's chewed-up 6th Division had been reinforced, the Reds quickly recovered from Task Force Kean's "spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described...