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Jordan is just a wide spot in the desert, with little claim to nationhood. But in one of those swift shifts of international politics, this vacuum in the sand has become the center of the storm, buffeted about by all the angry winds now loose in the Middle East. On one side press the claims of Iraq, its fellow Hashemite nation, and of Britain, its protector and sponsor, asking Jordan to side with the West. On the other side press Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, out to frustrate the West, arousing passions by inflammatory broadcasts, buying agitators, and receiving...
...Universal Theory. The sticking point, so far as the Chinese Nationalists were concerned, was the Russian insistence on Outer Mongolia, a Soviet puppet state carved out of the northern part of old China, and with few, if any, outward appearances of nationhood...
...General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church appropriately reminded themselves of Asia's explosive situation. The customary pastoral letter of the House of Bishops (which must be read to all Episcopal congregations within the month) pointed to "a tidal upheaval of deprived, hungry peoples struggling for food and nationhood and full human status and acceptance" in lands into which "half the population of God's world" is crowded...
...Office, attending a dance recital, leaped gaily up and joined the cast in a calypso "jump-up" while a steel band drummed and clanged. It was a week for exuberance in Trinidad: swiftly, almost offhandedly, the assembled leaders tore down the biggest roadblock in the way of fast-approaching nationhood for the British West Indian colonies...
Just as, 14 centuries earlier, they had borrowed the essentials of their nationhood from Asia-the writing and art of China, the advanced mores of Korea, the ethic of Confucius, the religion of Buddha -the Japanese in the Meiji period borrowed the makings of a second way of life, and wrought history's most remarkable transformation. The cocoon of medieval primitivism was broken and Japan emerged a modern world power-the first and only industrial nation of the Orient...