Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned on the whole Western world. For three years, Chinese reasoned, one of the important aims of their fight had been to keep the Orient open to the white man. At any moment China might have had peace by abandoning him and joining the Japanese New Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan. The Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There...
...course, for which Bronston presented a suggested outline, would be called "New Factors in International Relations--Latin America," and would parallel Government 30, which deals with Asia. It would analyze current events in relation to the history and government of Latin America...
...situation is quite clear," said Nichi Nichi. "Japan's and Russia's big interests demand mutual amity. In no sense can a new East Asia be built up in disregard...
...close to French Indo-China last week that the thought of it no longer caused alarm. Japan, self-appointed guardian of "Greater East Asia," had left no doubt that she intended to fall upon the fat prey to the south, but two factors caused her to hold her hand: uncertainty regarding the outcome of Hitler's war in Europe, and the presence of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific. The risk of becoming involved both in China and French Indo-China before Britain was definitely on her back, plus the probability of a complete U. S. embargo...
...tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...