Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical annihilation of 23 divisions ("or equivalents")-450,000 men, of whom 409,261 were reported killed, 9,774 prisoners. It meant also that Japan had been cut off from her conquests in Malaysia. It meant the "collapse of the enemy's imperial concept of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere...
Russia's need for postwar credit was one of Truman's bargaining points. What he might well ask in return from the Russians was: 1) as much cooperation as possible in Asia, during and after the Pacific war; 2) a pledge that Russia would not seek to communize all of Europe (see below...
...inching forward in the wake of the Japanese retreat much as a boy tiptoes through a haunted house, testing each plank as he treads. Behind this front, held by old tatterdemalion outfits, new armies and new weapons are being tooled to the future strategic pattern of the war in Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry, flea-bitten and malaria-ridden...
...more that come the greater will be our welcome. . . . Military and economic factors are equally important. If one is neglected the other will suffer. . . ." China's soldiers still needed weapons and supplies. In the Generalissimo's opinion, a properly equipped Chinese Army might shorten the war in Asia by a full year, cut in half the number of troops required to beat Japan...
...Stanford has announced a Pacific-Asiatic-Russian study program leading to a B.A. degree in the humanities. Students can major in 1) China, 2) Japan, 3) Rus sia, or 4) Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands...