Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Failure would almost certainly be loss of the war. But the prize of success was freedom to turn the German Wehrmacht loose on Britain and the U.S.-probably to take all Asia, possibly to take most of Africa, perhaps to take Britain itself...
Renner's Asia gives to Japan all the shores of the Japan Sea and the Mandated Islands, to Russia a Manchurian warm-water outlet and Outer Mongolia, to China a piece of Indo-China, to Thailand all the rest of Indo-China and a piece of Burma. All the Indies are lumped into an International Zone. India is arbitrarily divided into a Moslem state (west) and a Hindu state (east...
...special town meeting of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was called to order in Tokyo's monumental Diet Building last week by His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan...
...shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
Elsewhere there was little change in the great struggle for the control of East Asia and the western Pacific ocean and the general lull, which has prevailed since the Japanese conquered Burma, continued...