Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia. On political grounds, such an invasion would not fit into the Japanese pattern of conquest: Australia is a white man's land, and if Japan moves forward again, it is more likely to be in the direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians are not inclined to take invasion seriously...
...work in Asia is not one of salvage for an old status. It is one of giving scope and shape to a new life already born. That new life will not be abolished if the West ignores it; it will be for us or against us. It can be for us if we act now in its behalf. If it is against us, it will be long before America can enjoy the luxury of demobilization...
What more logical grounds could our isolationists have than a council of Europe and a council of Asia for retiring, if not into nationalism, at least into a mere council of the Americans? We are not European any more than we are Asiatic. For a European like Churchill to consider Europe the main show is understandable, if myopic. For an American to think so would be strange indeed...
...less than a full-scale sea, land and air assault can blast (the Jap) out of Burma." From Chungking, TIME'S Correspondent T. H. White filed a dispatch through U.S. and Chinese censors: "It is no secret anywhere in the world that the decision of the Battle of Asia will be fought in Burma some time...
...arms alone; the Burmese people must first be won, and they can only be won if British political strategy in the Far East is improved. Author Thien Pe addressed himself to the British and to Burma, but his premise applied as well to the U.S. and to all of Asia...