Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...
...State Department also permitted the Japs to seize the political initiative in Asia, by gifts and promises of gifts of territory to its satellites in Burma, Thailand, Nanking and French Indo-China. Said the New York Times of this U.S. blunder: "We cannot win [Asiatic good will] unless we have something to offer, and what we offer will inevitably be measured against what the Japanese have, if only ostensibly, begun to carry out. ... It is time to give some translation. We may not need to promise full independence . . . but we do have to give some assurance of betterment in their...
...called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political and economic cooperation in the prosecution of the Greater East Asia war. Then the brave new Burma of Dr. Ba Maw declared war on the U.S. and Britain...
...Eight years earlier Benedict XV had made Pacelli Titular Archbishop of Sardes (an ancient See in Asia Minor...
Back in Tokyo from a fortnight's flight through Greater East Asia, Premier Hideki Tojo last week announced that the entire Co-Prosperity Sphere "understands Nippon's true intentions and is concentrating full efforts to destroy the Anglo-American powers...