Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When French Indo-China last week became Japanese Indo-China (see p. 21) the strategic map of southeastern Asia was redrawn. Japan had gained another stronghold on the South China...
...water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck of the Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph...
This hoary plot blossoms like a star shell after the beauteous pair escape to Hong Kong with their love and the Star of Asia. There Mr. Gable dons an army captain's uniform to rob a Chinese, only to find himself inadvertently evacuating British nationals from a city beleaguered by the Japanese. Amid a multitude of jabbering Japanese, sheet-iron tanks and other M.G.M. props, versatile Captain Gable, singlehanded, routs the invaders. Having exhausted the possibilities of the summer's foremost cinematic absurdity, Bombay swiftly rewards its wounded hero and dispatches him to prison (to pay the Hays...
Japan. Glory wears thin against the grindstone of saddened days. It was all glory in Tokyo four years ago as the war for Asia burst. "Without cessation," wrote an American correspondent, "from 5 a.m. till noon . . . departing troops rode to military barracks in trucks, busses, streetcars and taxicabs, completely blocking traffic along the main highways. The truckloads of cheering soldiers, waving flags and banners and singing war songs, followed each other so closely that they extended in a line as far as the eye could see. . . . Children in the street waved flags and joined in the war songs." Factories blazed...
...spokesman of the Chinese Arn ies made an unprecedented announcement to Chungking's foreign correspondents last week. Four days short of four years had gone by since the guns of the Japanese Army had blasted an end to peace in Asia. It was time for the weekly press conference. But the conference, said the spokesman, would be canceled. There was "nothing to report...