Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Sinatra. He was small, thin, sunken-faced. Quick and aggressive, he could also be charming and gregarious. Mikhail Stryguine entered the Russian army at 17, fought in the infantry in World War II, became a full colonel at 31, and seemed destined for big things in the Red army. A 1953-55 tour of duty as a liaison officer with U.S. forces in Frankfurt gave him his first look at another kind of life. Assigned as military attache to Rangoon in 1957, Stryguine seemed anxious to make friends with Westerners in Burma. He did; but his new friends noticed...
...dashing cold water on the ardor of his countrymen angered by Red China's crushing of Tibet and its repeated threats against Indian "expansionists," Nehru protested that it would do no good to answer Chinese abuse with Indian abuse...
...Ambala Tribune warned that "by killing Tibetan autonomy, the Chinese have advanced their gun posts to India's northeast frontier," and have brought India's great cities within the range of Tibet-based bombers. An influential Indian geographer, Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, back from a trip to Red China, wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India: "It will be a sad day for Asia if, after a struggle for two centuries, she overthrows European imperialism only to become victim of another and more sinister imperialism." And in Parliament's first chance to debate the Tibetan question, Nehru...
Imperturbably, Nehru denied that his 1954 agreement with Red China about Tibet had been violated by Communist aggression, and he delivered a history lecture that seemed to suggest that if the Communists had not broken the mold of Tibetan society, someone else inevitably would have...
...Year. Only on the subject of Red China's repeated issuance of maps showing large chunks of Indian territory as belonging to the Chinese state ("cartographic aggression," one paper called it) did Nehru show warmth. He complained that this Communist habit "has been a factor in creating continual irritation...