Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program to which Ambassador Johnson refers is the weekly half-hour news summary "We Read TIME" on which you have been cooperating with us and which is broadcast on short wave every Friday morning at 4:30 from San Francisco to reach Asia, South Africa, and the Antipodes in the evening...
...course this position does not mention economic opportunities in Southeast Asia which must by all means be given Japan whenever really peaceful negotiations begin,--sometime in the future). J. K. Fairbank '29, Faculty Instructor and Tutor in the Department of History...
...Walt Whitman saw his country lying on the road between Europe and Asia. The great explorers, from Columbus on, had been turned back by the American continents; but the Good Grey Poet could see mankind spreading out over the prairies, crossing the Western mountains, reaching the shores of the Pacific and sailing over it to fulfill the dream that had always haunted Europe. He wrote...
This was a full diplomatic retreat, for only through the prolonging of war in Europe can Japan hope to snatch more of East Asia. If there was any doubt that Spokesman Ishii was talking for his Government, it was dispelled by British Foreign Under Secretary Richard Austen Butler, who told the House of Commons that the mediation offer had been made official. This week Prime Minister Churchill received Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu, turned the offer down...
...Thus, Japanese success would insure Axis domination over Asia, Australasia, and the entire western Pacific and would contribute directly to Axis success in Europe and the Atlantic as well...