Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India...
Associate Professor of Education Howard E. Wilson will be chairman of the afternoon session at 2:30 at which William Holland of the Pacific Relations Institute will give a talk on "Key Problems in Asia Today...
...Patton would hardly recognize his Desert Training Center today. Where the first 8,000 men of his Armored Force sweated 15 months ago, rehearsing for Tunisia, today nearly 200,000 troops of all kinds, save only WACs and paratroops, are being finally hardened for the fighting in Europe and Asia. The huge oval area in southern California and western Arizona has expanded until it is now larger than England. It is the biggest Army training area...
...Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice, displaying her broken sword, will be shown facing the Americas...
...repudiate the idea of leadership of Asia, because the 'Führer' principle has been synonymous with domination and exploitation. . . . China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism. . . . We hold that we must advance from the narrow idea of exclusive alliances and regional blocs, which in the end make for bigger and more terrible wars, to effective organization of world unity...