Word: isthmus
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...consensus of everybody that this must not be allowed. Then we discussed how to prevent it. It was agreed that if the Japanese got into the Isthmus of Kra, the British would fight. It was also agreed that if the British fought, we would have to fight. . . . If this expedition was allowed to round the southern point of Indo-China, this whole chain of disastrous events would be set on foot...
...given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great...
...Spread along the ultimate peninsula, of Southeast Asia, from southern Burma through the Kra Isthmus to Malaya, were perhaps 100,000 Japanese, including two divisions for the defense of Singapore...
...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...