Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model Symbol. In Asia, Japan was making history whose consequences for the world are still incalculable. Through it all, Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality...
There is still no Allied unanimity on what to do with the Emperor. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has made no bones about its wishes. It wants to dispose of Hirohito as Asia's War Criminal No.1. Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the Emperor's destruction by U.S. bombers-"that would make one less embarrassing question to deal with later." Last week the Chungking press called for Hirohito's trial, execution and the public display of his body "on Sun Yat-sen Road near Nanking...
Both promises run counter to Russia's interest and history in Asia since the 17th Century. China's historic right to Manchuria is unquestionable; Russia's historic urge toward both Manchuria and Korea is inescapable. At the least, Russia will almost certainly demand economic (which also means political) priority in Manchuria; at the most, outright possession. In either case, Russia would then be the great Asiatic and Pacific power, in a position to dominate China as well...
Conflicts of interest and method in Europe had strained Big Three relations from the start. In the end, the deepest conflict, the determining test of those relations, and of the postwar security system founded on them, may come not in Europe but in Asia...
...With few supplies from war-bound Asia and Europe, U.S. drug addicts now depend almost entirely on Mexico's poppies for morphine and heroin...