Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violated his own appeal. Britain and the United States, he said, can defeat the Axis Powers by keeping control of the seas. If this is true, why has the President formed a huge American Army? Actually, the road down which he beckons us leads to war in Europe, in Asia and in Africa, war fought by American men and materials, a stupid aggressive suicidal war of conquest. All through the developing crisis, this is the very eventuality that a great majority of Americans have feared. Even today, hardly a man dares support it frankly and openly...
...easy school. In this he speaks from experience, for, born of humble parentage, it was only his determination which lifted him far above his class. Not yet has he slackened the pace, for the still does all his work from source material taken directly from the archives of Asia Minor, records which demand a speaking knowledge of the world's most difficult tongues. An amazed tutee once caught him translating an original Greek text directly into Sanskrit as fast as writing allowed. His scholarship has carried him from the docks of Portsmouth to friendship with luminaries such as Kittredge, Russell...
Osman's Legacy. Turkey's amazing his tory began in 1227, when a tribe which had been driven out of Central Asia by the Mongols settled in Asia Minor near Angora (Ankara). Osman, the son of the tribal leader, organized scattered groups in Asia Minor into a fighting unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim...
...troops out of China altogether and push them toward the coveted Indies. Ja pan's southward push continued hard on the economic front, with the signing in Tokyo of a trade treaty with French Indo-China. It clearly suggested Japan's idea of a New Order in Asia...
...exploitation by a ruling class of an extremity and absoluteness never before known." Author Burnham calls his new class "The Managers"-the one class in society which is indispensable in making modern industry productive. Moreover, in two decisive sectors (Germany with most of Europe; Russia with half of Asia) the managerial revolution has already won. What remains is mopping up, division of the British spoils...