Last March India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said: "Strong winds are blowing all over Asia. Let us not be afraid of them but rather welcome them, for only with them can we build the new Asia of our dreams." Last week, in the lands where more than half the human race lives, the winds bore the taint of death.
War between Dutch and Javanese began in Indonesia (see below). China got ready for a new round of her long civil war. In Burma and Korea political assassination effaced leaders who had been among new Asia's best.
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