Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfway around the globe from Australia and the problems of Southeast Asia flew U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to land at Washington National Airport-and to find Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir, fresh-flown from the Middle East via Paris, already waiting for him with new and critical problems in her part of the world...
Before he came home to the freshly-fanned Middle East crisis, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looked over a part of the globe where he had helped put out the fires nearly three years ago. Addressing the third annual council meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at Canberra, Australia, Dulles declared that SEATO had been successful in blocking the spread of Communism in Asia: "The increased stability in the treaty area is fully evident," e.g., in "the unity and strength developed by the Republic of Viet...
...less than three years," said John Foster Dulles, before flying off last week to a gathering of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Canberra, "SEATO has become firmly established and has made a positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates...
...managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions, the communal wreckage will come later as Stateside purse strings become puppet strings even upon the pleasant, well-meaning young men directing the crusade . . . How brief the independence of churches which, having pulled away from...