Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power in particular seemed all-important to Harry Truman. So far as he could see, the Emperor alone could effectively order the surrender of all the Jap forces still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
...upshot was that the President got exactly what he wanted: Stalin's definite pledge to come in on a definite date (August 15, said the best available sources). Now, whatever the political implications to be faced later in Asia, the U.S. armies would not have to help the Chinese dispose of Japan's formidable forces in Manchuria, and Japan's last chance to prolong the war had disappeared...
Russia's Red Banner armies, driving into Manchuria, strengthened Russia's hand, and weakened China's, in the coming game for Asia. President Truman, welcoming the blow, preferred to think later of the later game. He concentrated on Tokyo...
...Threat. On the mainland of Far Eastern Asia, another war had begun as the old one was ending. For 16 years, the Russians had kept an army poised along their Siberian frontier facing Manchuria, had blooded it in border clashes with the Japs' well-trained, ill-famed Kwantung Army...
...Spread along the ultimate peninsula, of Southeast Asia, from southern Burma through the Kra Isthmus to Malaya, were perhaps 100,000 Japanese, including two divisions for the defense of Singapore...