Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informed particularly on Japanese poetry, polite as a Japanese minstrel, Ambassador Arsene-Henry falls into the first classification. Last week he was cruelly hounded by devotees of the second. In a week of bitterest tragedy for his France, it appeared that something equally ruinous might be at hand in Asia-the beginning of the end for the white man's oriental empires. The discomfort of Ambassador Arsene-Henry was pathetically symbolic...
...best, Britain must fight for her life in the Mediterranean, and singlehanded defend her island and dominions. At the worst, she would be bulldozed or beaten into surrendering or sinking her fleet, leaving the U. S. between a German-dominated Europe and a Japan-dominated Asia, each with a powerful fleet...
...There is a possibility that the European war will terminate soon. Even assuming that Japanese relations with the U. S. are not likely to change before the Presidential election and that there is no immediate risk of American interference in East Asia, it is possible that this fall will witness an important liquidation, the world over...
...Japan will therefore face a very important situation, which will determine the success or otherwise of the New Order in East Asia. In dealing with this situation special efforts are necessary and much will depend on the alertness and ability of the Japanese Foreign Service...
...popeyed, bulky, bluff Yakichiro Suma, who speaks with authority for the Foreign Office, told the country in a radio speech that Japan's policy of non-involvement in the war might soon become one of involvement "in the sense of preventing the spread of the European war to Asia," i.e., in the sense that Japan would grab the Indies and possibly Singapore and French Indo-China if & when they became weak enough to need "protection...