Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Spykman's post-war world would be made with the materials at hand--independent states. These nations will form leagues in each of the three major continental blocs, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. A strong country, like the United States, from each bloc will police the other blocs...
...keep that aim shining before us like a light-a light for the people of Europe, for the people of Africa, for the people of Asia, for the people of South America and for the people of our own beloved land...
...between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland of Asia...
Coon is universally regarded as an A-1 teacher; he has sparkle, humor, and a thorough grasp of his broad field. His courses on American, European, Asia, Africa, and Oceania are consistently first-rate, and show a careful selection of only the best material. His sole fault seems to be a sometimes hazy organization. Unfortunately, Coon may not be here next year, although he will probably be back the year following...
Commenting on the general situation in Eastern Asia, he stated that the evidence of growing Occidental appreciation of the rights of Oriental peoples is the most significant development of the century on the Far Eastern stage. One of the basic difficulties in our policy toward Asia, he continued, has been our inclination to assume an attitude of superiority with reference to the inhabitants of eastern Asia, a superiority which does not actually exist. "We have been thinking in terms of Kipling," Professor Steiger remarked...