Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
Carrying little moisture, the snow piled 35 inches deep at Leadville, high in Colorado's central Rockies, and 18 inches at Colorado Springs. It ranged from an inch deep in southeast Colorado to ten inches reported at Lander...
Joining Movius as professor of Archeology will be Douglas L. Oliver. Oliver is an expert on the peoples of southeast Asia and the Western Pacific...
...warned the members of the eight-nation group (U.S., Britain, France, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan) that SEATO must maintain its posture of defense-both militarily, against the ever-present threat of Red Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast support for the government of the Republic of China on Formosa...
...Colonial Office, experts last week dickered with 42-year-old Chief Minister Lim Yew Hok, a Malayan-born Chinese they once mistrusted, now respect. Main sticking point in drawing up a constitution for a new state of Singapore: whether Britain should keep police powers in the Red-infested Southeast Asian metropolis (pop. 1,200,000). Probable outcome: a compromise which will give Singapore full self-government but allow British intervention if troublemakers get out of hand...