Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fighting. Their Exclusion Act names you and says you are unfit for American citizenship. If Generalissimo Chiang really has influence in America, why has he not had this stigma erased from American law? There will be no such discrimination against you in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
Cornerstones & Temples. London and Washington knew that the road ahead would not be without obstacles: clinching of the military victory in Europe and in Asia, postwar boundaries, reparations, economic reconstruction. But the feeling was firm that a proper foundation had been laid, that future power politics might be enlightened power politics...
...more to France, Italy, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. The parts of Europe most in need of development shared the meager remainder. U.S. investments in backward, ambitious Poland were $177 million by 1930; British and French investments there were $345 million. Of the mere $1 billion placed in all Asia, $445 million was in Japan alone...
...does not threaten the debtor with automatic raid and collapse, as the old gold standard often unfairly did. Yet without tying rigidly to gold, it does provide means whereby gold can be sold into those large and populous areas of Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Asia where people mistrusting paper money are so eager to place their savings in gold that even now the markets in Bombay and Alexandria have bid up gold to twice its stated value in pounds or dollars. Finally, the Keynes plan provides a ready means for handling transfers to and from Russia, where...
...scenes the Jap pulled the wires. Obediently representatives of Vichy and Nanking signed a document that surrendered the old French concessions in Tientsin, Hankow and Canton to the puppet Chinese Government of Wang Ching-wei. Bleated the Tokyo radio: "Conclusive evidence of collaboration in a new order in East Asia...