Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble the Bear takes a poke at Iran. Thirty-five years ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov made a formula of it: "The English, engaged in the pursuit of political aims of vital importance in Europe, may, in case of necessity, be prepared to sacrifice certain interests in Asia. . . . This is circumstance which we can, of course, exploit for ourselves, as, for instance, in Persian affair...
...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
...East Asia's Switzerland, A free state where equality Is enjoyed by both sexes in harmony...
Allied arms had driven the Japanese from the "Co-Prosperity" version of empire. But ultimate Allied victory could not erase the memory of Japan's spectacular challenge to the West, nor the effect of the Jap propaganda slogan, "Asia for the Asiatics...
...Asia's rise had reached a point where it could seriously and persistently challenge Western domination. Relations between East and West would never be again as they had been...