Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gerald remained silent upon war aims, except for stressing our responsibilities toward "the mute peoples of Europe and Asia" and remarking in passing that he expected less talk about "propertied class" after...
First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...
...Manila, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British forces in East Asia, arrived for military conference with boot-tough U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, chief of the Asiatic Fleet; elegant General Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army; and High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre. On a Pacific Clipper, Manila-bound over the Midway-Wake-Guam steppingstone islands, flew Dr. E. N. van Kleffens, The Netherlands' Foreign Minister, to confer on the defense of the East Indies...
...Japanese Embassy in Washington. Minister Kawai arrived in Australia last fortnight, promptly began to talk about a trade agreement between Australia and Japan, a new airline connecting the two nations. Japan, said he, had no aggressive intentions against Australia-he believed in a policy of Australia for the Australians, Asia for the Japanese...
With the collapse of Japan, and the possible domination of South America by European interests, Hopper sees Asia as the future market of American goods