Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
...tumbled to strengthen himself. Like his father, he hunted big game and captured big headlines on spectacular safaris; he shot tapirs and jaguars in Brazil's Matto Grosso, became the first American to bag a panda, hunted timarau in the Philippines, spotted blue sheep and golden monkeys in Asia. Like his father and Cousin Franklin, he had started up the Roosevelt golden ladder: Harvard, the New York State Legislature, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. But unlike his father or his Cousin Franklin, he never became Governor...
...Asia. Combining about 522,000,000 people in about 42 sovereign states, it is the only area of the planet where "the facts of international life conform with the spirit of the Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic is the crucial area of U.S. fate...
...then even the regimented Japs were beginning to ask when their fleet would come out and fight. For the nonce, plump, taciturn Shimada said nothing; Tokyo's radio fantasists explained to the homeland and to Greater East Asia that the thing to do was to wait and see: some time the U.S. fleet would find itself far from home. Then the Jap fleet would strike the crushing blow...
...Harvard's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, William Ernest Hocking (Contemporary Science and the Idea of God) in his foreword: "May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers, and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and language...