Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless they come soon, the Jap has a good prospect of winning the Indies and riveting his hold on the most vital sea routes still held by the Democracies off Asia...
...years ago a British traveler who visited the Kazak nation on the plains of Central Asia came away with this idyllic description of an easy Asiatic cowboy's life. Since then part of this Moslem nation has made one of the most amazing journeys of modern times...
...faces a new world in which his character will be tested. Before the enemy took Manila, Japanese bombers scattered leaflets calling the U.S. an oppressor. Presumably these are ,now delivered door-to-door, telling that now at last the white man is being driven from Asia, reciting incidents, whether true or false, of Filipinos being barred from Americans' clubs, promising that Japanese armies will get out of China and that after Japanese victory all Asiatics will enjoy the Orient...
Partly it was rain that upset their calculations, miring them in hub-deep, sucking mud. But mostly they had failed because they were faced by the only troops in Asia who could match them in war-wrung experience. They themselves had taught these Chinese veterans how to snuggle against protecting hills, how to gauge ranges and rations, how to hold out hopelessly or attack desperately...
Correspondent Stowe's parting snipe was a mixture of hysteria and bad taste: "The Burma Road abuses definitely threaten to throw a much larger burden of combat throughout eastern Asia upon the Americans and the British." The Chinese remembered that for four years they had borne all the burden of combat in eastern Asia...