Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese legend, the Chinese wantonly opened fire on the innocent little servants of the Son of the Sun, and obliged them to fire back-and therefore obliged Japan to send about 1,125,000 armed men on to Chinese soil to establish a New Order in East Asia. Thus began the war in China. This week the China incident is three years old. In that time Republican Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, The Lowlands, the Baltic States, even the French Empire, have all succumbed to treachery or superior military might. And all that time the Chinese race, supposedly...
...Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...
...long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...
...similar to one signed by Britain under pressure a year ago-recognizing Japan's "specific rights" in China, promising not to impede the Japanese from maintaining peace and order. Peace and the New Order, when realized, would mean death to French, British, Dutch, and U. S. interests in Asia...
Turkish Folk Songs and Dances, by Nicholas Matthey and orchestra, is probably the most gratifying surprise of all the 150 albums Decca has released. Influenced by the melodies of Asia and North Africa, influencing the melodies of Eastern and Central Europe, Turkish music has everything from Bedouin thump to gypsy stomp. Notable in this collection is the weird and haunting Taxim, a harem dance which indicates that Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky were not faking their Moslem themes...