Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes to war in the Pacific, her first defensive problem will be the Philippines. What happens there depends mightily on President Manuel Luis Quezon, volcanic, theatrical, temperamental, ambitious politico of 62 crowded years, called the smartest politician in Asia, whom even tuberculosis cannot keep in bed when he gets excited about something. And last week President Quezon finally placed himself on record for the first time about where he stands on World...
...last week he responded-and all Asia heard...
...cover the whole world." He quotes Pan-Germanist Otto Richard Tannenberg (Greater Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The steps...
...were trying to obtain various necessaries from them. It has become clear that we cannot execute our military operations in China by means of supplies from America and Britain. The first thing we now are required to do is to carry out our southward advance. When Europe and Asia are placed under the new order, America will be unable to maintain her capitalism...
Last week half that many-100 Curtiss P-40 planes-had reached Burma. For the past few months tall, bronzed American airmen have been quietly slipping away from eastand west-coast ports, making their way to Asia. Pilots to fly the P-4Os and ground crews to maintain them will soon be scattered over southwest China from the Burma border to Chungking. These pilots were not just a crew of barnstormers turned warstormers. They had been, until recently, crack U.S. Army Air Corps pilots. To take on this combat job they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts...