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Word: java (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Dissention among the Allies | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Thrust from Davao | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report on a Grimness | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Life and Death on Borneo | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EDB Swings into Action | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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