Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last October Bose had worked his way to Singapore via Tokyo. He proclaimed a "Provisional Government of India," set about recruiting an "army of liberation," was tireless in his praise for Jap assistance in the task. When the time came to threaten Allied communications with southeast Asia, the Japs dubbed Bose a general and took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many...
...Asia and the Southwest Pacific...
...Axis-tortured victims in conquered countries, declared that "all who share the guilt shall share the punishment." Again he interpolated: That's more foreign policy; we've got a lot of it today. His statement ended with a ringing "call upon the free peoples of Europe and Asia temporarily to open their frontiers to all victims of oppression...
What an American plane was doing on the Turkestan route, Atkinson did not report. But directly across the line of flight between central Asia and some of the China bases lies the legend-shrouded, fabulous peak of Anye Machin. Standing at the clear headwaters of the Yellow River, high on the fringes of Tibet, cloudy Anye Machin has never been surveyed, is known to geographers and explorers only by native report...
Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, handsome, debonair Allied chief for Southeast Asia, slapped in the left eye by a stalk of bamboo while on a jeep tour of the Burma front, was treated for a minor face...