The Similkameen Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Taylor, Dave]
issued: 2024-05-22
issued: 1950-06-15
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note: BWGi Im <*; ■M.-*-k-*-K*-HC-M<++*-fc-M<*+-fc*+ $ CAMERON'S GROCERY* $ The Modern Store £ J PHONE 137 t SEX OUR AD *r Fiftieth Year; Np. 24— 1 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR s • FINES!1 PICTURES * * at Princeton's J t CAPITOL THEATRE $ J Every Week-Night J PRINCETON, B.C., THURSDAY, ISth JUNE, 1950 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Year THE KOREAN SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL The Truth About Korea PHIS is the Munich of World-iscrupulous 1 War III. Truman is determined to make it Manich in re. verbis St.alin prepared to make it Danzig? That is the issue. . It is the. key to a i;lch Oriental prize; it is a^o a pawn in a total world play. Checkmated in Europe, Stalin probes at a softer, remoter spot. With 700 million people, tjtit Orient is a prize in itself. From the time of Marco Polo the west, has coveted it commercially; from Peter the Great'so has Russia— and politically. But new independent forces are .growing up in Asia. For a century there has been obscure but intense rivarlry for Asiatic dominance between Japan and Russia Wprld War II deposed Japan:, but'the folly of Yalta let Russia in by the back door. Now the occupying powers — chiefly America—have fa'len heir to an old role of holding the bear in Asia. It ties in with their world task. Stalin will play for himself. Conventions, ideologies, will not worrv him pr principles or passion** be'ray him- He will make the best of it. He; wan.Js Korea i^id the Orient, and the world- But he Wants to know how far and how fast the democracies will let him go. They have told him it is Danzig or Munich, as he chooses He will play for himself, as he figures to win. It is significant that he again chose to mask behind a local "civiPissue rather than launch a global Pearl Harbor; and the immediate claim that he is the invaded, not the inyadei; that he replies to our dare—perhaps most daring in history — with compiaini; for America virtua'-ly challenged him to settle it all here and now. But he has been shrewd enough in planning not to have to see it …
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), The Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1935-08-29), The Similkameen Star (1935-09-05 to 1939-12-28). Pages may be missing and/or misnumbered. Some pages cut off due to printing error.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton (B.C.)
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0443604
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : Star Printing & Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
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