Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock business for a loop. Hitler was in another country. Practical-minded Chicagoans felt that under certain arms-length circumstances they might even tolerate Hitler, as they had tolerated Capone. As the General put it, they did not think the U.S. should "interfere in the quarrels of Europe and Asia, old, sick and overpopulated continents with ancient rivalries that cannot be healed...
...winter but by the hate he has kindled: "The hate of Hitler will be more terrible than the blizzard was to Napoleon." The U.S. should consequently aid Britain, build its own defenses, spread its ideas by its example and not try "to impose the four freedoms upon Europe and Asia...
...Rice in Asia." In Chinese, as in some other Asiatic tongues, one word is used for both "rice" and "food." No other grain yields so heavy a crop on the crowded fields of Asia's close-packed millions, no other food so satisfies their taste. The most populous countries of East Asia (China, Japan, Java), for all their unceasing efforts, are barely self-sufficient in normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export...
...long war in Asia has upset the traditional pattern of rice distribution. Lack of manpower and successive crop shortages have, since 1939, made Japan a major importer. Last year's emergency need for almost 2,000,000 tons of imported rice (a record figure, one-seventh of Japan's total consumption) was part of the urge that made her seize Indo-China. That need led to such abnormally large Japanese overseas purchases that Thailand placed export restrictions on rice, Burmese politicians urged similar action on their Government...
...famous speech to the America-Japan Society in Tokyo in October 1939, Ambassador Grew told the Japanese bluntly that the U.S. people understand all too well what the New Order in East Asia means. But he said then, and was trying to prove last week: "We believe that real security and stability in the Far East could be attained without running counter to any American rights whatsoever...