Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had not been taken into the joint counsels beforehand, had been tossed an unlikely bone-operations in Indo-China and Thailand. The Dutch had been left out altogether. And yet the Allied Supreme Command demanded Chinese troops, airmen and goods in Burma; then proceeded to Java and began to tell the Dutch what...
...Allies had finally recognized the tremendous strategic importance of N.E.I. (above and beyond its value for supplies), had set their southern Pacific headquarters under Archie Wavell down on Java...
Governorship of a black, uncharted Java at 30, then to deal fairly with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free trade, vigorous justice, mixed honor and unceasing labor. This was a pungent man; Britain needed more like him in the East...
...obvious to the Dutch that if the Japanese had an easy time in Malaya, if they took the Philippines, then the Dutch islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra would be next on the list of the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. And first to fall would probably be Borneo, of which the Brookes' Sarawak is a small part...
...Eastern, headed by tall, grey Charles B. Rayner, for ten years Standard Oil manager in Java, The Netherlands East Indies and Thailand, later a Texas...