Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears to be axiomatic that the United States cannot dominate Britain, the British Empire, Europe, and Asia--cannot control their destinies, their forms of government, their political philosophies. On the other hand, for the task of carrying forward the work of developing our American heritage and defending it, we have the resources, the skills, the loyalties, the technology, and a favorable strategic position...
...last decade, one or another of these blood brotherhoods was behind the assassination of Premiers Hamaguchi and Inukai, onetime Finance Ministers Inouye and Takahashi, Generals Watanabe and Nagata, Admiral Saito, Financier Baron Dan-men who seemed to the superpatriots to have betrayed Japan's divine mission to dominate Asia. Toyama personally had a hand in promoting the acquisition of Korea and in starting the Russo-Japanese war, and through the incredible Major Dohihara and a ruffian named Komei precipitated the Manchurian incident...
...twain never quite meet, but that the East has made so much progress in ways of the West. Thailand's roads are remarkable; her trains run on time. The curious paradox in Thailand's position is that being on Japan's little list for Greater East Asia, she is threatened by an eastern power which has developed western techniques of warfare. Last week Thailand was doing what she could to neutralize her paradox...
...Asia the maritime power, Japan, chose the side of the challenger to help break the hold on the Far East of the Anglo-U. S. combination, issued its own challenge in shrill but vehement tones. But the Japanese were still far from Singapore, which is Britain's fourth great naval fortress, and from the U. S. base at Manila...
...popular, card-playing naval attaché of a friendly second-rate power. Things have changed since then. Every influential Japanese newspaper last week regarded Ambassador Nomura's mission as hopeless. Said Tokyo's Miyako: "The United States is disturbing our gigantic task of constructing a new East Asia." Said Hochi: "Sending an Ambassador to Washington is like ordering a man on horseback to charge a wall." Said the Army's mouthpiece, Kokumin: "The appointment is our last card...