Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will look at a map of Eastern Asia you can readily see the strategic position of the Korean peninsula, and you can also imagine why Japan fought China in 1894, and Russia in 1904. Your conclusion will be-control of Korea...
After having played havoc with the best seller lists when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
...Soviet-German Pact nearly cost the warriors their face. They recovered after the fall of France; Hitler's western conquests spurred Japanese hotheads to even louder talk about a "Greater East Asia." The Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
There are two good reasons why: 1) John Gunther has enormous prestige as a news coverer of continents (Inside Europe; Inside Asia); 2) his amassing of colorful detail is as easy to take as gossip...
...journalists are taking courses in Government, History, and Economics to help them in their reporting. Courses that will be of use in the peace settlement talks are the favorites. Most popular courses in this line seen to be Hopper I (New Factors in International Relations: Europe and Asia), Schlesinger's History of the Westward Movement, and Social and Intellectual History of the United States...