Word: sino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapons or if B concludes an alliance. There is still a lingering belief in total disarmament, as distinct from a reduction of armaments. Total disarmament would exclude the United States from intervention in Europe and Asia. The free countries of the Old World would be overwhelmed by the Sino-Russian millions...
...Dulles has wanted, almost all his life, the job he now holds. He learned his first lessons in international relations at the knee of his maternal grandfather, John Foster, who was Secretary of State in Benjamin Harrison's Cabinet and who helped negotiate the 1895 treaty that ended the Sino-Japanese War. At 19, he was secretary of China's delegation at the Second Hague Peace Conference; at 30, he served on the Reparations Commission at Versailles. Between the wars he had a brilliant legal career. In 1941 he got the Federal Council of Churches to set up a Commission...
...south. When the first of the Viet Minh headed into the city, street crowds uttered only occasional, hesitant cheers. As the trickle grew into a rumbling stream of troops, the Vietnamese poured out from boarded and shuttered houses to shrill greetings. Out came banners proclaiming: "Long Live Sino-Russian Friendship!" From housetops red, gold-starred flags of the "Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" broke into view. A Hanoi newspaper, hitherto ardently pro-West, front-paged a huge portrait of Viet Minh Chieftain Ho Chi Minh...
...show of force? There was no reliable word, partly because most of the tourists had signed up for articles with British newspapers and presumably were saving their best answers. But if Attlee felt any discomfiture, it did not deter him from subsequent toasts to the desirability of Sino-British fellowship...
...Japan has yet to produce its first delivery. Nevertheless, Japan's economy is so shaky that businessmen are clamoring for more business with China despite U.S. pressures. They think the fact that trade would strengthen China in the cold war is not as important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also strengthen Japan. Said Kumaichi Yamamoto, a conservative ex-diplomat and now head of the Japan-Red China Trade Promotion Society: "We are moving inevitably towards increased trade with China. This cannot be prevented by the Americans with stopgap money grants or any other kind of economic...