Word: sino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figures were a vindication for that small corps of Sino experts gathered in Hong Kong who, in the face of Chinese claims, had surmised a great failure and had reported food shortages in the cities while Peking was talking of vast stockpiles (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). And, as many Western observers had already suspected, the highly touted backyard steel furnaces proved a fiasco. None of 3,000,000 tons produced was usable in industry, confessed Peking. Between the lines could be read the bitter admission that the commune system had resulted only in pushing China's luckless peasants...
Dean Bundy's office announced yesterday that John K. Fairbank '29, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies, will become Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History on July 1. Fairbank, a specialist on China, will be one of four panelists discussing the background of Sino-American relationships Tuesday at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...ability (through Air Force and Navy aircraft operating from a system of worldwide bases) "to deliver strategic weapons of such destructive power that the deterrent effect of this delivery capability would discourage any embarkation by the Sino-Soviet bloc in general...
John Foster Dulles met for 90 minutes with Charles de Gaulle. The premier did most of the talking. Demanding a greater voice for France, De Gaulle declared that the West is "at war" with the "Russo-Sino bloc" on a global scale, and that the Big Three must have "organic consultation." De Gaulle asked why the U.S. had failed to support France in the U.N. vote on Algeria, which the French (and the French alone) consider a "flank of NATO." Dulles in general welcomed the idea of increased French participation in Western councils. But Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani...
...deny external successes to International Communism is not merely a negative, defensive policy. It accelerates the evolution within the Sino-Soviet bloc of policies which will increasingly seek the welfare of their own peoples rather than exploit these peoples in world conquest...