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Bolivia, acutely conscious of a highly strategic continental position, was the only South American nation to declare war against Japan. The January 1942 issue of FORTUNE tells why: "A buffer State among five mutually jealous nations that might be swept by political cross winds of the present war...Bolivia has all the characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source...
...forces in China, promoted to the rank of general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with an offensive from Korea...
...long as the U.S.-Canadian border. The long miles bulge in a great convex arc-incipient giant pincers against Russia. It was to push these pincers as far as possible from Moscow and the industrial area of European Russia that the U.S.S.R. had grabbed buffer areas every time Germany had pushed over a nation on the Soviet border...
...Evans believes that chronic arthritis can often be prevented if oxygen is injected into the joints when they first begin to swell. The oxygen, he claims, has a threefold action: 1) it seems to act as a buffer between inflamed cells, separating them, opening lymph channels for drainage, and reducing pressure; 2) it probably kills certain types of bacteria; 3) it may neutralize poisons and stimulate local circulation of blood...
Smiles returned to Japanese faces, tea cups were refilled and an armistice creating a twelve-mile buffer zone between the Indo-Chinese and Thai forces was quickly arranged. Peace talks were postponed for a later meeting in Tokyo, when claims would be settled and peaceful collaboration in the New Asiatic Order discussed...