Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of paramount position, and in which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration from China. It is also the region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years ago has now been taken over, sometimes in identical phrases, by Communist China...
...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...
...case of Jerusalem, the result in the General Assembly was a grandiose deal. The Latin American bloc, favorable to Italy, voted to put Somaliland under Italian control for ten years, with independence promised at that time. To appease the Arabs, Libya was promised freedom by 1952, with a U.N. commission to supervise the establishment of an independent government. Eritrea will be polled by a five-nation committee next year to see if it wishes to join Ethiopia...
...lopsided majority of 53 to 5, with only the Soviet bloc in opposition and Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...
What makes things good in the fact that from last year's runner-up teams for the Pentagonal League title, only six lattermen have graduated. An a result, the experience of what Coach John Chase calls a "pretty rough season" will be behind a big bloc of players...