Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies were on the way. If the U. S. could turn itself into a workshop for democracy, the democracies were now financially able to use what it produced; if U. S. weapons, or U. S. food, could turn events in Europe or Asia, they could now legally be shipped. U. S. flags were broken out in the shattered streets of London. All over the world the news and its import were heard and realized...
...dictators of Europe or Asia doubt our unanimity...
...brink of Europe, facing Asia across the shimmering Bosporus, the Hill of Pera is crowned by one of the swankest old hotels in the world. It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees and oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay. Last week a rattletybang little streetcar jammed with Turks was just careening around a curve in front of the Pera Palace when a great belch of flame and smoke pushed out the whole first floor of the hotel with a crunching, grunting roar. Against...
...BATTLE FOR ASIA-Edgar Snow-Random House...
...grisly and exciting place. His Cook's tour of the Asian battlefield leaves no corpse unturned. It ranges from the insane theatricality of Shanghai's bombing to the way the Japanese hang Chinese buffaloes alive over fires, slicing and eating them as they bellow. The Battle for Asia brings Red Star Over China up to date. And as with his famed account of the Eighth Route Army Journalist Snow still finds his most exciting stones among China's Communists. He also shares some of their revolutionary fervor. Hence the Cook's tour is also one long...