Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Withdrawing into the vastness of Asia is no new idea to Russian officials. Since 1928, chief trend of the three Five-Year Plans has been to open up Siberia and the East. Designated for years as Russia's "Chungking" has been Sverdlovsk, 950 miles east of Moscow in the Urals...
Harvard-trained Lattimore, little known to the public, is an expert's expert on Central Asia. One of the few living Americans who speak, read and write Mongolian, master of fluent Chinese (talkative Mr. Donald never spoke Chinese, disliked Chinese food) and a half-dozen Asiatic dialects, Expert Lattimore's career is a colorful one. Now only 40, he has by turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore...
...another aspect of Japan's so delicate situation. Not even a Japanese could foresee last week what the vast U.S.S.R. might look like if its western armies were destroyed by Germany, but there was a grave possibility that Germany's hegemony would extend to the continent of Asia. To be considered then would be probable German encroachment on Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, possible German support of China against Japan, the ultimate possibility that Japan would be reduced to puppetry similar to Italy...
...Cabinet met, disbanded, met again, finally half-promised to issue "a statement manifesting Japan's firm attitude." The statement, according to the official news agency, would stress two things: Japan's devotion to peace, her determination to continue with her oft-sidetracked New Order in East Asia...
...time, the Mongol conqueror ruled some of Europe, most of Asia and sired the Great Moguls of India. He died in 1405, just after his most successful campaign, while on his way to conquer China. Location of his tomb was well-known, but, according to legend, had long since been looted by Persians...