Word: china
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent man like India's Nehru fail to realize that Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance could work wonders against an England with a conscience and yet_ fail disastrously against a Communist China which has no conscience...
Battle of Formosa. The Orient seemed promising. Porter, an outspoken advocate of recognition of Red China, decided to go to Red Peking. When the State Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month...
Battle of the Embassy. Back in Japan, Porter got in a row with able U.S. Ambassador MacArthur at a private meeting. Calling in the press later, Porter charged, among other things, that MacArthur had attacked his position on Red China and had promised "to debate the issue back in the U.S." Not so, retorted MacArthur; he had never suggested a debate. "Porter said I was being unfriendly and uncooperative," said MacArthur. "He said, I will take care of you.' " Retorted Porter as he prepared to fly home: "I still say MacArthur challenged me to a public debate...
...wake of Porter's memorable trip, his proposed recognition of Red China met with stony nonrecognition in the two places most concerned. "Crude interference in China's internal affairs!" cried Radio Peking. "Preposterous," said Hong Kong's pro-Nationalist newspaper, Shih Pao: "Our American friends should soberly think of the damage done to U.S. good will abroad by Porter's shallow views...
...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...