Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime the President had moved his attention and many a U.S. ship into the Atlantic. Neither the U.S. nor Japan wants a U.S.-Japanese war. Therefore the U.S. would go on aiding China against Japan, and the Japanese would carry on their aggression against China and southeast Asia-both policies based on national realism...
...first definitive statement of U.S. foreign policy in the world today was not one but a three-gun salvo, directed not only toward Europe, but toward Latin America and Asia as well. At week's end, as near as spotters could judge, the score was one direct hit, one dud, one hit with a time fuse that had yet to explode...
Japan's proposed "New Order in Asia" has been steadily increasing in scope. At first it was to include only North China, but gradually the conception has expanded to embrace all of China, then "Greater East Asia," then "Oceania...
During a recent Diet session Japan's spouting little Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka seemed to assign to the Asia of the future its widest boundaries yet. Said he: "We Japanese have a heaven-sent right to settle in some part of the United States climatically healthful and enjoyable...
...Army and in the bureaucracy. Older, more conservative groups in both the Government and the Army are suspicious of the aims of both Germany and Russia, and behind them are most of the people. They do not want to involve Japan in a dangerous war with any power outside Asia, regardless of legalistics...