Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal aim: control of the seas. As long as the United Nations had that control, uninterrupted around the perimeter of the world, the best the Axis could win would be a Germanized Europe. Without that control, the Jap's dream of a Greater New Order in East Asia was cobwebs and moonshine...
...were last week clamping a chill pattern of subjugation over the still-warm framework of military conquest. All the world knows that Hitler's European New Order is failing. It will be a long time before the world knows how Japan's New Order will fare in Asia, for the Japanese have a genius for suppression. But by last week two facts began to glimmer through the huggermugger murk: 1) the Japanese were stealing everything in sight; 2) they were treating prisoners surprisingly well...
Elsewhere in the battle for control of the western Pacific Ocean and Asia the situation showed little change...
...nation's greatest concern was far across the seas. Russia must not be allowed to fall if U.S. aid can prevent it. Russia's fall would turn loose on Asia and Africa a terrific Nazi army, an army of millions of men, thousands of planes and thousands of tanks, an army big enough to fight on a 2,000-mile front-as it is now doing...
...Radio Tokyo, while informing Japanese at home that America, Australia, Europe and Africa were all originally "parts of Asia," has taken to flirting on short wave to the U.S.: "Japan . . . will be a charming partner to any nation, white or colored, so long as its cause is just...