WEST’S AIMS IN ASIA
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW JERSEY, April 16. Mr Lester Pearson, the Canadian Minister for External Affairs, said yesteday that the West must show Asia that it did not propose to offer an exchange of “Coca-Cola for Confucius.” Delivering the third and last of the Stafford Little lectures at Princeton University, Mr Pearson said that Communist propaganda was ceaselessly and successfully insinuating that the West had nothing to give the East but technology. Mr Pearson said that the West must avoid “the superficial idea” that the appeal of communism was merely to the hungry and that a higher and material standard of living would remove the problem. The provision of aid to Asia simply as a “cold war” measure was likely to fail, he said. One of the most successful Communist propaganda assertions was that the West had no feeling of kindredship for Asia, Mr Pearson said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 14
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