Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illness might be a return of tuberculosis. But the agile little President was not too ill last week to know what was going on. He knew how precariously balanced was the fate of the British Empire and the freedom of the vast sea across which the sprawling Philippines face Asia. He knew that if Japan, already groping south, reaches for the rich empire of the East Indies, the Philippines will be in danger...
...unprecedented $1,611,432,400 budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said before about the U. S., including the charge that the U. S. is trying to "intervene" in East Asia, and ended his most vocal week with the statement: "As long as the United States regards China instead of the East Pacific as its first line of defense, just so long will friendly relations remain an idle dream...
Intelligent and intellectual organ of the anti-war group is the Christian Century, powerful interdenominational weekly whose attitude is that of Managing Editor Paul Hutchinson: "I don't think this war is going to eventuate in any more constructive outcome than the last. . . . Both in Europe and in Asia we can do immeasurably more good by staying out than by getting in." The Century has carefully opened its columns to the views of leaders on both sides, and Editor Hutchinson agrees that an overwhelming majority of the Protestant clergy favor aid to Britain and are not opposed...
...Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia will be dominated by the conquerors...
...Americanism," Alfaro stated, "has never been so strong as it is now. Two factors have contributed to this improvement: The Policy of the Good Neighbor and totalitarian aggressions in Europe and Asia...