Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes last week, like all U.S. citizens, were deeply impressed by Japan's successes in Asia. They noted that Japs are not white men. But U.S. Negroes did no cheering for Japan. As individuals, U.S. Negroes were bitterly, resignedly or indifferently conscious that the realities of U.S. life still barred them from full equality of citizenship. Nevertheless, most of them would still prefer to be potential citizens of a fighting democracy than the slaves of a conquering dictatorship...
...Asia for the Asiatics. Throughout the democratic world, in fact, there was a growing appreciation of the point of view eloquently expressed last week by U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann...
...moment of Columbus' greatest failure; for at last he could no longer conceal from himself that he had discovered not the wealth of Asia but a new world...
...with fewer of them. Warner figures that we can add 15,000 stops to the existing 40 (which would bring 90 per cent of the population within an hour's drive of an airport), and sink a million dollars into passenger planes to handle the commercial business with Europe, Asia, South America, and within the states. But even so, that would absorb only 5 per cent of the aircraft industry that will exist...
This second World War is a war of politics as well as military strategy. The related stories of the Fall of Singapore and Life in the Raffles Hotel have knocked the props out of the white man's prestige in the whole of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek tried to make up for that loss of prestige by instilling fear of Jap invasion in the heart of India, and he was answered by an argument for passive resistance...