Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with this moderate approach to touchy affairs with China, there are indications of an even more important change in American foreign policy. While several months ago the President attached great weight to the formation of a Southeast Asia collective security past, the present recommendation of the National Security Council scents to be an increased program of economic aid. Liberation of China has become a realistic effort to help "liberate" free Asia from economic serfdom...
nounced the beginning of work on a manual about Southeast American plants. This sort of project--which will take ten years despite the Herbarium's facilities--would have been nearly impossible with former equipment...
...most effective jungle army in Southeast Asia, indoctrinated so deeply that there is a Red cell in every platoon, and commissars discuss politics with the wounded in the hospitals...
...best general in Southeast Asia, Vo Nguyen Giap, 42, top law student of his time at Hanoi University, graduate of Chinese military schools. A Communist since the late '30s, he is sometimes temperamental and needs to be watched by party theologians, but his hatred for the French is unwavering: his first wife went to jail for calling the Tricolor a "flag of dogs," and died of typhoid there...
Early this year, Aneurin Bevan, the Labor Party's aging Young Turk, decided that the time had come to stake his ambitions on what seemed to be two surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...