Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more had, whether they knew it or not, an acute interest in these questions-and many of them knew it, 'for hundreds of thousands were under arms and being called to arms. From the Adriatic to the Caspian the little nations of eastern Europe and western Asia trembled and prepared for the worst-not knowing what the worst might...
...strong, at present preoccupied with repairing the devastation of last month's monster earthquake. President General Inönü visited the stricken region not only to comfort his panicked peasantry (see cut, p. 31),but for military reasons. The thorough wreckage of northeastern Asia Minor has destroyed the railroads, without which Turkey's eastern defenses can hardly be supplied. Whether or not he expects to be at war by spring, last week President Inönü got from his adjourning Parliament emergency decree powers like those Premier Daladier of France got after Munich...
...Manhattan dinner where Author Carl Van Doren gave him a scroll for one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year (Inside Asia), slab-sided Journalist John Gunther announced he had still to learn enough about his native land to write an Inside America...
...ultimate causes of the conflicts in both Europe and Asia all nations, including our own, must share responsibility. This admission of common guilt as regards the origins of the wars must not blind us to the incalculable issues at stake in the outcome of these wars. . . . An interpretation of the present conflicts as 'merely a clash of rival imperialisms' can spring only from ignorance or moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing...
Causes of the current wars in Europe and Asia will be the subject of a new evening course by Associate Professor Payson S. Wild Jr. to be offered starting Feb. 7 by the commission on Extension Courses of Harvard and ten other Greater Boston institutions...