Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second result was the appointment of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Allied Commander in East Asia. This step made as clear as anyone could expect that an end had been put to ambiguity in British and American military policy in the Far East. It proved that the British were now 1) willing to undertake a major campaign against the Japs, 2) glad to assume responsibility for the campaign, 3) committed, by the choice of a young and vigorous commander, to push the campaign as forcefully as possible. The Churchill line became one of savage verbal pounding...
...biggest present vacancy in United Nations Commands-the much-talked-about Southeast Asia Command-Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt last week picked much-publicized Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas ("Dickie") Mountbatten...
...Edward lived to see the lights come up; died when they flickered in 1933. Others saw the lights blow out again. Europe's darkness this time spread to Africa, Asia, Australia, America; in the universal war, even neutrals had to accept the night. Among the world's blacked-out cities: London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Bern, Budapest, Helsinki, Honolulu. Dimmed-out cities: Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Bombay...
...Under whatever semblance or form of World Federation may be established [after the war], China will never, judging from her present experiences during the war, be accorded true equality, because she is Asiatic." 2) A mystic belief that Asia will come into its own. "I saw China growing strong, and Russia growing stronger, and all Asia growing strong. I know that this nation of 450,000,000 people, united and awakened and purged by the war-fire, is coming up; the strength lies in her and nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down...
...Mencius' partial answer to the questions this book raises is of less political interest than Dr. Lin's fierce indictment of the western world and the shortcomings and plans of the United Nations with respect to Asia', and especially China. Little that Lin says has not been said more calmly and more carefully already by thoughtful, worried Americans and Europeans...