Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet. U. S. isolation has been a practical foreign policy largely because Britain was friendly. For this arrangement, the U. S. repaid her. At the back door of Asia the U. S. Fleet has long stood guard, setting up outposts in the Philippines and Hawaii to prevent seizure of the Orient by pushing, expansion-set Japan. Today, with Britain fighting with her back to the wall, Admiral Richardson can keep his battle fleet based at Honolulu, only because the U. S.'s outposts in the Atlantic are still under the protection of a British Fleet...
...serious. But it was so as a weather vane. Nor was it the only indication last week of the new direction taken by Japan's "divine gale"-that Heaven-sent wind, part good luck and part opportunism, which the Japanese say is wafting the New Order over East Asia...
...useful purpose, said Mr. Hull, could be served by continuing the discussion. Said Steve Early for the President at Hyde Park: the U. S. has no intention of interfering in territorial adjustments in Europe or Asia, but "the Government of the U. S. wants to see, and thinks there should be an application of the Monroe Doctrine in Europe and Asia similar to its application of the Monroe Doctrine in this hemisphere...
...would invoke the Monroe Doctrine. It would not seize the islands or other possessions of the conquered nations for itself. Its position would be that the fate of such possessions should be decided "by and among all the republics of this hemisphere." If a Monroe Doctrine operated in Asia, it would mean that in deciding the fate of Indo-China, all the Asiatic countries would confer. Said Steve Early, summing up the President's view: "The same procedure follows also with respect to Europe and to other parts of the world-that all European and Asiatic countries confer...
...meanwhile the cloud over U. S. sugar is growing darker. Cuba has depended on the European market to get rid of 33% of her crop; Britain's sugar islands have depended on Europe even more. In Asia, the huge Javanese crop is facing a smaller market in India (which can now turn exporter), is backing up close to the Philippines and Hawaii. Thus, if the U. S. assumes the job of taking care of distress commodities inside the Monroe Doctrine area (TIME, July 1), sugar will stand near the head of the line...