Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southeast Asia, where these portents seemed especially clear, armed Communist insurrections in recent years were narrowly put down in Malaya, Indonesia, Burma and the fragmented states carved from French Indo-China...
What remains there is still chaotic. But last week two of TIME'S correspondents, James Bell and Paul Hurmuses, who have been crossing and recrossing Southeast Asia, found a common thread in many dissimilar situations: Communism, instead of being triumphantly on the march, is on the defensive in Southeast Asia. A country-by-country checklist...
...products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...
...military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia's eyes, Washington had refused to grant him the $100 million he wanted as a stabilization fund for the shaky Philippine peso. (Officially valued at 50?, the peso can be bought almost anywhere in Southeast Asia for a quarter...
...dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple on occasion to hold political prisoners without trial. Said Nehru: "It may be that in a changing society, [the executive] represents reality more than the statute law which the judge administers...