Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo radio announced last week the formation of the Greater East Asia Virgins Association, with headquarters at Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Said the broadcast: "Positive cooperation of Javanese girls deserves attention." The Japanese hope that 200,000 virgins will cooperate positively with Japanese troops in building the New Order in Asia...
...have learned that the ordinary citizen, from Cairo to Moscow to Chungking, is a lover of liberty and wants action-action now. He is ahead of his leaders, this plain citizen of Africa, or Europe, or Asia, or America. It annoys him that much of the might of the United Nations stands idle, awaiting action on some future...
...Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously defeated in Asia...
...full readiness" to handle U.S. supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then...
Still the last stop on the milk route of United Nations supplies, China has been able to dominate her own skies this summer with the aid of a handful of U.S. planes and pilots. As the Japanese have spread their land forces all over Asia, Chiang's armies have swept back with the tide. Last week they had thrown the Japs back in Chekiang province, were closing in on the last "bomb Tokyo" airfield in the province...