Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gang are the Nichi Nichi and the Kokumin, the latter edited by a Johns Hopkins University graduate, Hitoshi Tanaka. I've known him a decade. The entire crowd started early in the formation of a now famous Tanaka memorial which proclaimed Japan's destiny in Asia; a total political, economic and military hegemony of the Far East...
...sensitive nerve end in U.S.-Asiatic relations-the absence of American diplomats whose prestige matches the importance of Asia in the 1942 world-Franklin Roosevelt applied some balm last week. To serve as his "personal representative" in India he appointed suave, gracious William Phillips, a top-flight career diplomat who has held many an important post since he left Harvard Law School for the State Department...
...Navy uses on the same subject. Said Tojo: "The success or failure of southern reconstruction [in the conquered Pacific areas] depends chiefly ... on the efficiency of water transportation. . . . Japan does not have surplus vessels, for Japan must maintain transportation within the extensive area of the Greater East Asia sphere, while she must [also] continue her gigantic [war] operation, continuously fighting one decisive battle after another." In other words, U.S. attacks on Japanese merchantmen, cruisers and destroyers have hit Japan at her weakest point...
...Last January there were 2,836 long, short and medium wave transmitters in the world (North and Central America, 1,398; South America, 508; Europe, Russia and Turkey, 472; Asia, 216; Oceania, Australia & New Zealand, 165; Africa, 77). This showed a six-year increase of some...
...high idealism in the speeches of U.S. Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. But what did he mean when he said: "Millions of Americans are now coming to see that if Pan-America and the British Commonwealth are the wasp of the new democracy, then the peoples of Russia and Asia are the wolf...