Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Ambassador Clarence Gauss (rhymes with boss) sailed on the President Garfield from San Francisco, bound for Chungking. Like every U.S. Ambassador, like the members of the innumerable U.S. missions in Europe and Asia, his task had narrowed to one main aim: to prevent the Axis encirclement...
...still minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact, more & more officials were realizing the effectiveness of Axis grand strategy: to destroy the Anglo-American position in the world by isolating the U.S. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann, espousing this view: The issue of 1941 is "whether the United States, cut off from Asia, from Europe, from Africa, from South America, and from the British Isles, is to be left alone, entirely isolated, incompletely armed, and encircled by the worldwide totalitarian alliance...
...Cabinet accepted the pact; the Privy Council, sitting in the presence of the Son of Heaven, approved it unanimously. Next evening Emperor Hirohito sanctioned it. The press hinted broadly that Mr. Matsuoka should next go to the U.S., and perhaps to Great Britain, to try to win Greater East Asia by negotiation...
Fortnight ago, startled Americans blinked in the rising sunlight and asked: How could it happen? Japan, loudmouthed opponent of Communism in Asia, had just signed a non-aggression pact with Russia, loudmouthed guardian of Asia against Japan. Even five years ago the pact would have been unthinkable. What had happened to Japan? This week two veteran U.S. correspondents in the Far East, "Jimmy" Young and Hallett Abend, told them something about the revolution which Japan is carrying out in the midst of a great foreign...
...Stockholm went Finland's hardy old Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to receive from the Swedish Geographic Society the Sven Hedin Medal for map work accomplished during his 8,750-mile horseback expedition across Asia 35 years...