Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They [Americans] are really a very friendly people despite the apparent ferocity of their handshakes and their violent backslapping. They mean well. Remember their civilization is much younger than that of Europe and Asia. They are just great big overgrown children at heart and should be treated as such...
...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...
...A.A.F. engineers have built airfields from Alaska to Africa to Asia. U.S. forces found only nine airdromes in North Africa from which they could operate. Within a few months there were a hundred...
...December 1938, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye proclaimed Japan's plan to create a peaceful New Order in East Asia. In October 1941, the war-minded Army drove the weak-bodied, peace-minded Prince into retirement. Last week he was resurrected to head the Government's new Japan-China Society. Brutality had failed to win cooperation in the occupied areas; now persuasion and propaganda were to be given another chance. The Society's aim, according to the Tokyo radio: "To drive home to the hearts of one billion Asiatics the lofty ideas of the Greater East Asia...
Franklin Roosevelt had helped author the scheme of battle. And at the end of 1943, the U.S. rather than England seemed to be the power that played with Soviet Russia for the great stakes of influence in postwar Europe and Asia. But in 1943 Roosevelt's political control of the U.S. had been reduced to a lower margin than in any other year of his three terms. The nation endorsed his plans for war & peace (as far as they could guess them)-but not necessarily himself...