Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that event, light vessels of the British, Dutch and U. S. forces operating from the Indies, Singapore, Manila, Guam, etc., would doubtless begin a blockade of Japan. All her seaborne commerce could probably be destroyed except that with China, Manchukuo and Korea. Even that could be harried by submarines. Weakened as she is by her three-year-old war in China, and dependent on supplies and markets overseas, her eventual defeat would be likely. At worst she might hold out until it became necessary to withdraw the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic. If she then took the Indies...
...Called by President Roosevelt "the most important defense action since the Louisiana Purchase of 1803" was: 1. The Overton Act to fingerprint aliens. 2. The swap with Britain of 50 old U. S. destroyers for Atlantic naval bases. 3. The fortification of Guam. 4. The Rush Act to confiscate U. S. plants in war time. 5. U. S. purchase of Rolls-Royce plane patents...
...Japan threatened more Far Eastern colonies, Secretary Hull: 1. Put off Philippine independence-promised this January-until 1945. 2. Officially urged U. S. citizens to leave the Orient. 3. Urged Congress to rush Guam fortifications. 4. Sent 6 U. S. destroyers into the East China Sea. 5. Publicly consulted J. Edgar Hoover on the 5th Column problem in Hawaii...
...Japan's puppet Government at Nanking) and "restore The Netherlands Indies as an Asiatic country." In a telegram to Publisher Howard, Director Hoshio Mitsunaga of the Nippon Press Association suggested that the U. S. can prevent a crisis if it "abandons its fortifications at Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Midway Islands, gives up its support of Chiang Kai-shek and restores trade to normalcy...
...States is aiming at," said Kokumin. "By leasing the British bases in the Atlantic, the United States is foreshadowing its future advance in the Pacific. . . . It is now believed that it will extend its grip on Singapore and The Netherlands Indies by speeding up the expansion of bases on Guam, Midway and other Pacific possessions. It is only natural that the Japanese Navy, with its policy of non-menace and nonaggression, should be greatly concerned over this undisguised challenge by the United States...