Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Louis Mountbatten. the slim, attractive wife of Britain's Southeast Asia Commander, became a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order...
...teacups, her husband let his guests know that his Labor Government did not intend indefinitely to prop up unenlightened Dutch imperialism in the East Indies. Too much was at stake. Half-a-billion Asiatics, from Bombay to Bali, were watching the European masters return to their old Southeast Asia house. The house had changed. The masters had to change, too. If the Dutch blinked the fact, the matter would be brought before the UNO Assembly...
...over, but peace was only the absence of war. Over Europe lay the heavy hand of political turmoil and hunger, the unfathomable problems of reconstruction and reparations. The Middle East was torn with strife, Asia racked by revolt. Even the fortunate Western Hemisphere contained some of the tightest dictatorships in modern history...
...Pauley statement dovetailed with the Chinese view on reparations; in spite of its immediate need for finished products, China would rather take Japanese machinery and thus reduce the chance of a subsequent Japanese revival as a power in east Asia...
...might celebrate Christmas in peace and freedom. They also included the millions who died in concentration camps, the children who perished from exhaustion, cold and fear, in flight from battling armies or in air raids, the children who have died by thousands from hunger and cold in Europe and Asia this year...