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Word: asia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While Gandhi continues to attack industrialization, some of his most devoted followers go ahead with plans to make India the industrial heart of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Boss | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...China's Ambassador to the U.S., Wellington Koo, was extraordinarily frank (for a diplomat) in explaining why the U.S. had a special responsibility for supporting Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. He called attention to the new Russian position in Northeast Asia, which had been greatly strengthened by acquisition of the Kurile Islands, occupation of northern Korea and half-ownership and control of Manchuria's principal railroad. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report From The World: Report From The World, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...same. It would not have seemed normal to me to have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently, I would be saving my own home from destruction in defending London and in liberating Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report From The World: France Looks at Germany | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Throughout most of Asia, the white man is truly hated and the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost-probably blacker in Indonesia than anywhere except Indo-China. The natives' passions run away with their leaders' intellects. I am inclined to doubt whether whites and colored will work together in this generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Ir. | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Ir. | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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