Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the U.S. holds those advantages and because Russia is so patently lacking in all but manpower reserves, Ike Eisenhower could guarantee a stalemate, at least, if war came now. Even though parts of Europe or Asia might be occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential...
...ASIA AND THE PACIFIC...
...threat to be met? In Western Europe, said Hoover, by restoring (under suitable supervision) the productive capacity of Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse. In Asia, by restoring the productive power of Japan...
...Foreign Policy (Sat. 7 p.m.,NBC). "Asia's New Role in World Affairs"; discussed by Chinese Ambassador V. K. Wellington Koo, Indian Ambassador M. Asaf...
...Blond, hefty (225 lbs.) John Gunther has developed a rapid-transit system for writing books. His field trips for Inside Asia (1939) took a mere eleven months, for Inside Latin America (1941) only five. Now he has explored the 48 states on a jaunt lasting slightly more than a year. He has written a lot of letters (including one to every governor), interviewed many, and pumped a lot of local newsmen, some of whom are very helpful in the Gunther System, and apt to be highly flattered by such attention from one of journalism's most renowned panjandrums...