Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal which was reported last month (TIME, Oct. 28), granting Japan more than three times as much Netherlands East Indies oil as she had previously been allowed, was confirmed. The Emperor himself paused in pompous celebrations of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire to discuss expansionist moves with Army and Navy leaders. The newspaper Yomiuri defined all this without making any mince: "The work left for Japan is to sweep away the remains of the white empire which so long has held sway in our part of the world...
Hemmed in by succession States, revisionist, expansionist, but surrounded by neighbors powerful enough to hold her in check, Hungary smoldered for 20 bitter years. Her first small chance came when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia. Last week came Hungary's great chance. She took it-but not in the old-fashioned Balkan manner. In other times what was done in Vienna last week would have rocked the chancelleries of Europe, shaken bourse and market, reverberated around the world in grimmest headlines. Not so under the New Order. To Rome it was "a victory of Axis policy...