Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang knew that the war in Asia would not be over until, somewhere in China, Chinese troops had blasted Japanese troops from a major field of battle. There is only one way for China to acquire the necessary power to do that: by importing planes, artillery and trucks over the Burma Road. Chiang's first step toward victory was to keep the Burma Road open at all costs. He was preparing to do that. For weeks he had been marching troops into position south of the road...
...Japan proclaimed her "New Order in Asia." ("Japan . . . is devoting her energy to the establishment of a new order based on genuine international justice throughout East Asia.") Feb. II, 1939. Japan's troops seized China's Hainan Island, off the eastern coast of French Indo-China. Explanation: a "military necessity" to cut off war supplies from China...
...speakers will be William Henry Chamberlin, former Christian Science Monitor foreign correspondent and author of "Japan Over Asia"; Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, Faculty instructor in Far Eastern Languages; Mrs. Elizabeth Schumpeter, world renowned authority on Japanese economics; and William S. Howe '10, former member of the United States consular service in China...
Therefore, we have the twin jobs of resisting the wrong kind of Japanese government and getting ready for constructive settlement with reasonable Japanese when we have won. We have made mistakes and will eventually have to clear out of Asia; however, the Japanese have even less right to subjugate peoples their way than we have...
...wait to defeat Japan? Japan is concentrating attack on territories in Asia and Malaysia. It will let Honolulu alone if we don't intervene. Why not, on the Committee's premises, let Japan run amok and simply withdraw to the eastern Pacific...