Word: macao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still thinks that the world owes Europe a debt, and that the world has to come up to European standards of living. Europe, I know, still intends to appropriate the world. There are the British Empire, the French Empire, and the Dutch Empire. Even Portugal has got a concession, Macao, in China...
First stray reports on U.S. missionaries in the path of Japan: Methodists said all their workers in Manila had been safely "evacuated to the mountain resort of Baguio" (which the Japs took five days later); five Catholics seized near Hong Kong were escorted by the Japanese to nearby Portuguese Macao and released; 16 missionaries headed by Methodist Bishop Ralph A. Ward reached Free China safely after fleeing from the occupied zone; one famed missionary, President J. Leighton Stuart of Yenching University, near Peking, was put into "honorable confinement...