Word: hong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picture. In Santa Barbara, Calif., Lutheran Minister Conrad Braaten confidently addressed the Kiwanis Club on the subject, "Glimpses of the Political, Economic and Religious Aspects in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Middle East, Kenya and East Germany...
Seeking Trouble? What was Red China up to? Western specialists in Hong Kong had originally conjectured the continuing Chinese difficulties in Tibet explained its action. The rebellion could not be crushed until Tibetan hope for outside help was extinguished. Ergo, India, which had given asylum to the Dalai Lama and to 13,000 Tibetan refugees, must be shown up as unwilling or unable to help...
...HONG KONG AIR ROUTE will be approved for Northwest Airlines in near future by British government. Service will start immediately thereafter. Northwest won CAB approval to extend its transpacific route from Tokyo to Hong Kong after British opposition was overcome by President Eisenhower's approval for BOAC to add a San Francisco-Tokyo leg to its round-the-world flights...
...ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other nation that displeased it, just so long as peaceful India were left alone...
Filtered Down. In Hong Kong, taken to court by his wife for not making his $10-a-month support payments. Ng Kin-Cheung complained that he could not afford them because he had a concubine and eight children to support, and bought cigarettes with what money was left, was ordered by the judge to cut down on smoking...