Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their strategic position at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, flanking Suez, the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb gave the Arab possessors of Asia's oil lands an importance beyond their numerical or political strength. India's position in Asia and in the British Empire made the Indian question not only Britain's but the world's problem...
...Asia last week was burning at both ends and in the middle-in China, India and the Middle East (see below). These fires had been smoldering for generations, but in the case of the Middle East and India, Allied military successes that reawakened hopes of peace in Europe, aroused Arabs and Indians to press their nationalist aims while their maneuvers in the politics of the war and of the peace gave them a bargaining point with Britain...
...problem of China overshadowed all others. For China occupies in Asia a strategic position somewhat like that of Germany in Europe. If it was true that whoever dominated Germany dominated Europe, it was also true that whoever dominated China dominated Asia. The problem was even vaster. For if the Chinese Communist state-within-a-state should ever dominate China, the combination of a Communist China's 450,000,000 people and Communist Russia's 190,000,000 people might by sheer numbers and economic resources dominate the world...
...spinning wheel spun more & more frantically, pathetically, for he was old, and he knew with an urgency unknown to most of the politicians he dealt with that until the problem of India's unity and India's freedom was solved, the problem of peace and security for Asia and for the world could not be solved...
...this mission, a "medium-sized" force of the great bombers flew from a base in the Southeast Asia Command near the equator, about 1,800 miles from the target. (The only Allied fields meeting these specifications are on Ceylon.) The blow was a bitter one for the Japs. Scorched by the Dutch, the refinery had been restored to something like its old capacity (18,000,000 barrels a year), reputedly was turning out aviation fuel as well as other petroleum products desperately needed by the enemy. Superfortressmen reported they had hit it fairly and squarely, thought it might take...